Direct correlation between the facial nerve nucleus and hemifacial seizures associated with a gangliocytoma of the floor of the fourth ventricle: A case report

Epilepsia

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Yagyu, Kazuyori ^a   Sueda, Keitaro ^a   Shiraishi, Hideaki ^a   Asahina, Naoko ^a   Sakurai, Kotaro ^a   Kohsaka, Shinobu ^a   Sawamura, Yutaka ^a   Saitoh, Shinji ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dysplastic neuronal lesion; Facial nerve nucleus; Floor of the fourth ventricle; Hemifacial seizure

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM;

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN FOURTH VENTRICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE TUMOR; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CHILD; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FACIAL NERVE NUCLEUS; FEMALE; GANGLIONEUROMA; HEMIFACIAL SEIZURE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; THETA RHYTHM;

CEREBRAL VENTRICLE NEOPLASMS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FACIAL NERVE; FOURTH VENTRICLE; GANGLIONEUROMA; HEMIFACIAL SPASM; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SEIZURES;

EID: 82955187343     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2011.03299.x     Document Type: Article

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