Surgery after intracranial investigation with subdural electrodes in patients with drug-resistant focal epilepsy: Outcome and complications

Neurosurgical Review

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 519-526

  Morace, Roberta ^a   Di Gennaro, Giancarlo ^a   Picardi, Angelo ^b   Quarato, Pier Paolo ^a   Sparano, Antonio ^a   Mascia, Addolorata ^a   Meldolesi, Giulio Nicolò ^a,d   Grammaldo, Liliana Graciela ^a   De Risi, Marco ^a   Esposito, Vincenzo ^a,c  

^a IRCCS NEUROMED   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d Neurone Foundation for Research in Neuropsychobiology and Clinical Neurosciences   (Italy)

Author keywords

Epilepsy surgery; Extratemporal epilepsy; Outcome; Subdural electrodes

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN SURGERY; CHILD; DYSPHASIA; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HOMONYMOUS HEMIANOPIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSORIMOTOR DEFICIT; SUBDURAL ELECTRODE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; DRUG RESISTANCE; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SEIZURES; SUBDURAL SPACE; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866732725     PISSN: 03445607     EISSN: 14372320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10143-012-0382-5     Document Type: Article

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