Medically intractable temporal lobe epilepsy in patients with normal MRI: Surgical outcome in twenty-one consecutive patients

Seizure

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 475-479

  Smith, Adam P ^a   Sani, Sepehr ^a   Kanner, Andres M ^a   Stoub, Travis ^a   Morrin, Matthew ^a   Palac, Susan ^a   Bergen, Donna C ^a   Balabonov, Antoaneta ^a   Smith, Michael ^a   Whisler, Walter W ^a   Byrne, Richard W ^a  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Normal MRI; Outcome; Temporal lobe

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE DURATION; ENCEPHALITIS; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; FOLLOW UP; HEAD INJURY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOLUMETRY;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; ANTICONVULSANTS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEADACHE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SCLEROSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALPROIC ACID;

EID: 79958264626     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: 15322688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2011.02.013     Document Type: Article

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