Occipitotemporal hippocampal depth electrodes in intracranial epilepsy monitoring: Safety and utility ; Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 345-352

  Bekelis, Kimon ^a   Desai, Atman ^a   Kotlyar, Alex ^b   Thadani, Vijay ^a,b   Jobst, Barbara C ^a,b   Bujarski, Krzysztof ^a,b   Darcey, Terrance M ^a,b   Roberts, David W ^a,b  

^a DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Depth electrode; Epilepsy surgery; Hippocampus; Intracranial electrode; Seizure monitoring

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN DEPTH RECORDING; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; ELECTRODE IMPLANT; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMYGDALA; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84873664670     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2012.9.JNS112221     Document Type: Review

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