Surgery for catastrophic epilepsy in infants 6 months of age and younger: Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 603-607

  Gowda, Shaila ^a   Salazar, Fortino ^c   Bingaman, William E ^b   Kotagal, Prakash ^b   Lachhwani, Deepak L ^b   Gupta, Ajay ^b   Davi, Stephen ^b   Niezgoda, Julie ^b   Wyllie, Elaine ^b  

^a Providence Med Ctr Providence Park   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND SCIENCES   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Blood loss; Catastrophic epilepsy; Epilepsy surgery; Infant

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD VOLUME; BODY WEIGHT; CATASTROPHIC EPILEPSY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; EPILEPSY; FOLLOW UP; GROUPS BY AGE; HEMIPARESIS; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; SEIZURE;

AGE FACTORS; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRONTAL LOBE; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HUMANS; INFANT; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MALFORMATIONS OF CORTICAL DEVELOPMENT; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPASMS, INFANTILE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77953153592     PISSN: 19330707     EISSN: 19330715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2010.1.PEDS08301     Document Type: Article

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