Impact of failed intracranial epilepsy surgery on the effectiveness of subsequent vagus nerve stimulation

Neurosurgery

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1210-1217

  Elliott, Robert E ^a   Morsi, Amr ^a   Geller, Eric B ^b   Carlson, Chad C ^a   Devinsky, Orrin ^a   Doyle, Werner K ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b SAINT BARNABAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Corpus callosotomy; Craniotomy; Epilepsy surgery; Medically intractable epilepsy; Medically refractory epilepsy; Seizure focus resection; Vagal nerve stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SURGERY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CRANIOTOMY; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FOLLOW UP; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; INTRACRANIAL EPILEPSY SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT RESISTANT EPILEPSY; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CRANIOTOMY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOSURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT FAILURE; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80955133991     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e3182230ae3     Document Type: Article

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