Surgical Management of Intractable Childhood Epilepsy: Curative and Palliative Procedures

Seminars in Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 195-202

  Perry, M Scott ^a   Duchowny, Michael ^b  

^a Cook Children's Medical Center ^*  (United States)

^b MIAMI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

BRAIN SURGERY; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FOCAL CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; LENNOX GASTAUT SYNDROME; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT SELECTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; NEUROSURGERY; PALLIATIVE CARE; PEDIATRICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80655125250     PISSN: 10719091     EISSN: 15580776     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spen.2011.06.006     Document Type: Review

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