Diffuse hemispheric dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumor: A new radiological variant associated with early-onset severe epilepsy - Report of 3 cases

Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 416-420

  Bird Lieberman, Georgina ^a   Sethi, Kaye ^b   Childs, Anne Marie ^a   Chumas, Paul ^a   Crimmins, Darach ^c   Ismail, Azzam ^a   Livingston, John ^a  

^a LEEDS TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE   (United Kingdom)

^c CHILDREN S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Children; Dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumor; Epilepsy; MR imaging; Resection

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; CONTRAST MEDIUM; LAMOTRIGINE; VALPROIC ACID; VIGABATRIN;

ADOLESCENT; ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; CLONIC SEIZURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FOLLOW UP; GLIOMA; GROWTH RETARDATION; HEMISPHERIC DYSEMBRYOPLASTIC NEUROEPITHELIAL TUMOR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPSARRHYTHMIA; LENNOX GASTAUT SYNDROME; MALE; NEUROEPITHELIOMA; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOTACTIC BIOPSY; TERATOMA; TONIC SEIZURE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

AGE OF ONSET; ANTICONVULSANTS; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; DRUG RESISTANCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; EPILEPSY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; SEIZURES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79953824831     PISSN: 19330707     EISSN: 19330715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2011.1.PEDS10258     Document Type: Article

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