Surgery for temporal lobe epilepsy: Historical review and postoperative results

Brain and Nerve

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 313-320

  Hoshida, Tohru ^a  

^a National Hospital Organization Nara Medical Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Memory; Postoperative outcome; Selective amygdalohippocampectomy; Temporal lobe epilepsy; Temporal lobe resection

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

AMYGDALOHIPPOCAMPECTOMY; ARTICLE; BRAIN SURGERY; BRAIN TUMOR; FOLLOW UP; GLIOSIS; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEMORY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RECURRENT DISEASE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AMYGDALA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79955379028     PISSN: 18816096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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