Extent of surgical resection predicts seizure freedom in low-grade temporal lobe brain tumors

Neurosurgery

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 921-927

  Englot, Dario J ^a,b   Han, Seunggu J ^a,b   Berger, Mitchel S ^a,b   Barbaro, Nicholas M ^a,b   Chang, Edward F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticectomy; Epilepsy; Glioneuronal tumor; Hippocampectomy; Low grade glioma; Subtotal; Temporal lobe

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR TEMPORAL LOBE CORTICECTOMY; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER PROGNOSIS; DISEASE CONTROL; GLIOMA; GROSS TOTAL LESIONECTOMY; HIPPOCAMPUS RESECTION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SUBTOTAL RESECTION; SURGICAL APPROACH; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TAILORED RESECTION; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; GLIOMA; HUMANS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; SEIZURES; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84858751066     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e31823c3a30     Document Type: Article

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