Seizure outcome in surgically treated drug-resistant mesial temporal lobe epilepsy based on the recent histopathological classifications : Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 37-47

  Giulioni, Marco ^a,c   Marucci, Gianluca ^b   Martinoni, Matteo ^a   Volpi, Lilia ^a   Riguzzi, Patrizia ^a   Marliani, Anna Federica ^c   Bisulli, Francesca ^a   Tinuper, Paolo ^a   Tassinari, Carlo Alberto ^a   Michelucci, Roberto ^a   Rubboli, Guido ^a,d  

^a Divisions of Neurosurgery ^*  (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c BELLARIA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d DANISH EPILEPSY CENTRE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cortical dysplasia; Epilepsy surgery; Glioneuronal tumor; Granule cell pathology; Hippocampal sclerosis; Low grade tumor; Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy; Seizure outcome

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; BRAIN TUMOR; CHILD; CONGENITAL BLOOD VESSEL MALFORMATION; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DENTATE GYRUS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ENCEPHALOCELE; EPILEPSY ASSOCIATED LOW GRADE TUMOR; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GANGLIONEUROMA; GLIOMA; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOCYTOSIS; MESIAL TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; NEUROEPITHELIOMA; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAPILLOMA; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PLEOMORPHIC XANTHOASTROCYTOMA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN DISEASES; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG RESISTANCE; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MALFORMATIONS OF CORTICAL DEVELOPMENT; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REGISTRIES; SCLEROSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879901673     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2013.3.JNS122132     Document Type: Article

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