Callosotomy and subsequent surgery for children with refractory epilepsy

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 93, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 185-191

  Ono, Tomonori ^a   Baba, Hiroshi ^a   Toda, Keisuke ^a   Ono, Kenji ^b  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION NAGASAKI MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b Yokoo Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Drop attacks; Electroencephalography; Epilepsy surgery; Frontal lobe epilepsy; Generalized seizures

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATONIC SEIZURE; CALLOSOTOMY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; DISEASE RESISTANCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FRONTAL LOBE; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SYMPTOM; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

ADOLESCENT; ANTICONVULSANTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DRUG RESISTANCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; SEIZURES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79251611885     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2010.12.011     Document Type: Article

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