Longitudinal seizure outcome and prognostic predictors after hemispherectomy in 170 children

Neurology

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 253-260

  Moosa, Ahsan N V ^a   Gupta, Ajay ^a   Jehi, Lara ^a   Marashly, Ahmad ^a   Cosmo, Gary ^a   Lachhwani, Deepak ^a   Wyllie, Elaine ^a   Kotagal, Prakash ^a   Bingaman, William ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LONGITUDINAL SEIZURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; REMISSION; REVIEW; SEIZURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADOLESCENT; ANTICONVULSANTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE; SEIZURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84873686945     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e31827dead9     Document Type: Review

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