Surgery for medically intractable epilepsy due to postinfectious etiologies

Epilepsia

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1097-1100

  Chandra, P S ^a   Bal, Chandrashekar ^a   Garg, Ajay ^a   Gaikwad, Shailesh ^a   Prasad, Kameshwar ^a   Sharma, Bhawani S ^a   Sarkar, Chitra ^a   Singh, M B ^a   Padma, Vasantha M ^a   Tripathi, Manjari ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Epilepsy surgery; Infection; Neurocysticercosis; Neuronavigation; Refractory epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN SURGERY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE DURATION; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; GLIOSIS; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HUMAN; INFECTIOUS COMPLICATION; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MALE; MENINGITIS; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBERCULOMA; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTIONS; CHILD; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954225064     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2010.02538.x     Document Type: Article

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