Selective amygdalohippocampectomy versus standard temporal lobectomy in patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy and unilateral hippocampal sclerosis

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 104, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 94-104

  Wendling, Anne Sophie ^a,b,c   Hirsch, Edouard ^b,c   Wisniewski, Ilona ^a,b,c   Davanture, Céline ^b   Ofer, Isabell ^a   Zentner, Josef ^d   Bilic, Sofia ^a   Scholly, Julia ^a   Staack, Anke M ^a   Valenti, Maria Paula ^b   Schulze Bonhage, Andreas ^d   Kehrli, Pierre ^b   Steinhoff, Bernhard J ^a  

^a Epilepsy Centre Kork   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF STRASBOURG   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amygdalohippocampectomy; Epilepsy surgery; Memory; Outcome; Temporal lobe epilepsy; Temporal lobectomy

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; BRAIN SURGERY; DEPRESSION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE TEST; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEHRFACHWAHL WORTSCHATZ INTELLIGENCE TEST; MEMORY DISORDER; MESIAL TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SELECTIVE AMYGDALOHIPPOCAMPECTOMY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SYMPTOM CHECKLIST 90; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

ADULT; ANTERIOR TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; COHORT STUDIES; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCLEROSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875495199     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: 18726844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.09.007     Document Type: Article

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