Seizure outcome after extratemporal epilepsy surgery in childhood

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 54, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 995-1000

  D'Argenzio, Luigi ^a   Colonnelli, M Chiara ^a   Harrison, Sue ^a   Jacques, Thomas S ^b   Harkness, William ^a   Scott, Rod C ^a   Cross, J Helen ^a  

^a University College London Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Trust   (United Kingdom)

^b Neural Development Unit   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; EXTRATEMPORAL EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; MALE; NEOPLASM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SCLEROSIS; SEIZURE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS;

ADOLESCENT; AGE OF ONSET; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG RESISTANCE; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84867229873     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2012.04381.x     Document Type: Article

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