Population-based analysis of morbidity and mortality following surgery for intractable temporal lobe epilepsy in the United States

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 725-729

  McClelland III, Shearwood ^a,c   Guo, Hongfei ^b   Okuyemi, Kolawole S ^b,c  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NEUROSURGERY; PATIENT CODING; POPULATION RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; COHORT STUDIES; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79958704563     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneurol.2011.7     Document Type: Article

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