Epilepsy: Efficacy of epilepsy surgery: What are the questions today?

Nature Reviews Neurology

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 311-312

  Berg, Anne T ^a  

^a CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; BRAIN SURGERY; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE RISK; RECURRENT DISEASE; REMISSION; SEIZURE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ANTICONVULSANTS; DRUG RESISTANCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEIZURES; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79958186722     PISSN: 17594758     EISSN: 17594766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneurol.2011.73     Document Type: Article

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