Failed epilepsy surgery for mesial temporal lobe sclerosis: A review of the pathophysiology

Neurosurgical Focus

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Vale, Fernando L ^a   Pollock, Glen ^a   Benbadis, Selim R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Mesial temporal sclerosis; Surgical failure; Temporal lobe epilepsy; Temporal lobectomy

Indexed keywords

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MEDLINE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SCLEROSIS; STATISTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ANTERIOR TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; PUBMED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCLEROSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 84858607933     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10920684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2011.12.FOCUS11318     Document Type: Review

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