Long term outcome in patients not initially seizure free after resective epilepsy surgery

Seizure

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 419-424

  Elsharkawy, Alaa Eldin ^a   Pietilä, Terttu A ^a   Alabbasi, Abdel Hamid ^b   Pannek, Heinz ^a   Ebner, Alois ^a  

^a EPILEPSY CENTER BETHEL   (Germany)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Epilepsy surgery; Initially non seizure free; Long term outcome; Predictors of outcome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SURGERY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955694293     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2011.01.016     Document Type: Article

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