Outcome of epilepsy surgery in children after evaluation with non-invasive protocol

Neurology India

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 30-36

  Jayalakshmi, Sita ^a   Panigrahi, Manas ^a   Kulkarni, Dilip ^b   Uppin, Megha ^b   Somayajula, Shanmukhi ^a   Challa, Sundaram ^b  

^a KRISHNA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b NIZAM'S INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

children; Epilepsy surgery; non invasive; outcome

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN SURGERY; BRAIN TUMOR; CHILD; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLIOSIS; HAMARTOMA; HEMIANOPIA; HEMIPARESIS; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUALITY OF LIFE; RASMUSSEN SYNDROME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPIKE WAVE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 79952329321     PISSN: 00283886     EISSN: 19984022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0028-3886.76854     Document Type: Article

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