Epilepsy surgery in a pediatric population: A retrospective study of 129 children from a tertiary care hospital in a developing country along with assessment of quality of life

Pediatric Neurosurgery

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 186-193

  Dagar, Amit ^a   Chandra, P Sarat ^a   Chaudhary, Kapil ^b   Avnish, Chauhan ^b   Bal, C S ^a   Gaikwad, Shailesh ^a   Garg, Ajay ^a   Sarkar, Chitra ^a   Srivastava, A ^b   Padma, M V ^b   Rekha, Diwedi ^b   Gulati, Sheffali ^a   Paul, Vinod ^a   Prasad, K ^b   Singh, M B ^b   Tripathi, Manjari ^b  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b Head and Neck Oncosurgery   (India)

Author keywords

Epilepsy surgery; Hemispherotomy; Pediatric epilepsy; Quality of life; Temporal resection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EPILEPSIES, MYOCLONIC; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; EPILEPSY; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84856715313     PISSN: 10162291     EISSN: 14230305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000334257     Document Type: Article

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