Contralateral MRI abnormalities affect seizure and cognitive outcome after hemispherectomy

Neurology

Volumn 75, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 1623-1630

  Boshuisen, K ^a   Van Schooneveld, M M J ^b   Leijten, F S S ^b   De Kort, G A P ^b   Van Rijen, P C ^b   Gosselaar, P H ^b   Van Nieuwenhuizen, O ^a   Braun, K P J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE FREE INTERVAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HUMAN; INFANT; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LENNOX GASTAUT SYNDROME; MALE; MENTAL DEVELOPMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

COGNITION DISORDERS; COHORT STUDIES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78349287344     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e3181fb4400     Document Type: Article

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