Beneficial effect of epilepsy surgery in a case of childhood non-paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 295-299

  Muehlebner, Angelika ^a,b   Groeppel, Gudrun ^a   Pahs, Gerald ^a   Hainfellner, Johannes A ^b   Prayer, Daniela ^a   Czech, Thomas ^a   Feucht, Martha ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Drug resistance; Epilepsy surgery; Limbic encephalitis; Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy; Unilateral hippocampal sclerosis

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; CLOBAZAM; ETIRACETAM; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE; HARKOSERIDE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; OXCARBAZEPINE; TOPIRAMATE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CYTOLOGY; CONFUSION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALITIS; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; EPILEPSY; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL CONCENTRATION; NAUSEA; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NEUROSURGERY; NON PARANEOPLASTIC LIMBIC ENCEPHALITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DISORDER; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; VERBAL MEMORY; COMPLICATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; LIMBIC ENCEPHALITIS; PATHOLOGY; SCLEROSIS; SEIZURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LIMBIC ENCEPHALITIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SCLEROSIS; SEIZURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77955050683     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2010.05.009     Document Type: Article

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