Feasibility of antiepileptic drug withdrawal following extratemporal resective epilepsy surgery

Neurology

Volumn 79, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 770-776

  Menon, Ramsekhar ^a   Rathore, Chaturbhuj ^a   Sarma, Sankara P ^a   Radhakrishnan, Kurupath ^a  

^a SREE CHITRA TIRUNAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLOBAZAM; CLONAZEPAM; ETIRACETAM; LAMOTRIGINE; OXCARBAZEPINE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; TOPIRAMATE; ZONISAMIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; DYSPLASIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; EXTRATEMPORAL RESECTIVE EPILEPSY SURGERY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRONTAL LOBE; GLIOSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; POSTWITHDRAWAL SEIZURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE;

EID: 84866108126     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e3182644f7d     Document Type: Article

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