Temporal lobe epilepsy surgery failures: Predictors of seizure recurrence, yield of reevaluation, and outcome following reoperation - Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 113, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1186-1194

  Jehi, Lara E ^a   Silveira, Diosely C ^a   Bingaman, William ^a   Najm, Imad ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Epilepsy surgery; Outcome; Reoperation; Temporal lobectomy

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTRODE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REOPERATION; SEIZURE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650095797     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2010.8.JNS10180     Document Type: Article

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