Seizure outcomes and mesial resection volumes following selective amygdalohippocampectomy and temporal lobectomy

Neurosurgical Focus

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Sagher, Oren ^a   Thawani, Jayesh P ^b   Etame, Arnold B ^a   Gomez Hassan, Diana M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Anterior temporal lobectomy; Entorhinal cortex; Epilepsy surgery; Hippocampus; Temporal lobe

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTERIOR TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84858590058     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10920684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2011.12.FOCUS11342     Document Type: Article

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