Development of an online tool to determine appropriateness for an epilepsy; surgery evaluation

Neurology

Volumn 79, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1084-1093

  Jette, Nathalie ^a   Quan, Hude ^a   Tellez Zenteno, Jose F ^a   Macrodimitris, Sophia ^a   Hader, Walter J ^a   Sherman, Elisabeth M S ^a   Hamiwka, Lorie D ^a   Wirrell, Elaine C ^a   Burneo, Jorge G ^a   Metcalfe, Amy ^a   Faris, Peter D ^a   Hernandez Ronquillo, Lizbeth ^a   Kwon, Churl Su ^a   Kirk, Andrew ^a   Wiebe, Samuel ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ARTICLE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; NEUROSURGERY; ONLINE SYSTEM; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHYSICIAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

EID: 84867523609     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e3182698c4c     Document Type: Article

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