Cognitive changes following surgery in intractable hemispheric and sub-hemispheric pediatric epilepsy

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1067-1073

  Thomas, Santhosh George ^a   Daniel, Roy Thomas ^a   Chacko, Ari George ^a   Thomas, Maya ^a   Russell, Paul Swamidhas Sudhakhar ^a  

^a CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Children; Cognitive decline; Cognitive outcome; Epilepsy surgery; Intractable epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROSURGERY; ONSET AGE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASMUSSEN SYNDROME; SKILL; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; STURGE WEBER SYNDROME; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADOLESCENT; AGE OF ONSET; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION DISORDERS; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77956187957     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-010-1102-5     Document Type: Article

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