Delayed compressive angiomatous degeneration in a case of mesial temporal lobe epilepsy treated by gamma knife radiosurgery: Case report

Neurosurgery

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Finet, Patrice ^a   Rooijakkers, Herbert ^a   Godfraind, Catherine ^a   Raftopoulos, Christian ^a  

^a CLINIQUES UNIVERSITAIRES SAINT LUC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Degeneration; Epilepsy; Epilepsy surgery; Gamma knife; Medically refractory; Mesial; Radiosurgery; Temporal lobe

Indexed keywords

AMLODIPINE; CARBAMAZEPINE; CORTICOSTEROID; GABAPENTIN; LAMOTRIGINE; LOSARTAN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; TOPIRAMATE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN DEGENERATION; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN HERNIA; CASE REPORT; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; FEMALE; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; GLIOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ANGIOMATOSIS; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOSURGERY; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 77954115809     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000370011.36820.ED     Document Type: Article

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