Prognostic importance of serial postoperative EEGs after anterior temporal lobectomy

Neurology

Volumn 76, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 1925-1931

  Rathore, Chaturbhuj ^a   Sarma, Sankara P ^a   Radhakrishnan, Kurupath ^a  

^a SREE CHITRA TIRUNAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY;

ADULT; ANTERIOR TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; ANTICONVULSANTS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; SCLEROSIS; SEIZURES;

EID: 79958120547     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e31821d74b3     Document Type: Article

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