Seizure outcomes after corpus callosotomy for drop attacks

Neurosurgery

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 993-1000

  Bower, Regina S ^a   Wirrell, Elaine ^a   Nwojo, MacAulay ^a   Wetjen, Nicholas M ^a   Marsh, W Richard ^a   Meyer, Fredric B ^a  

^a Mayo Clinic College of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Corpus callosotomy; Drop seizures; Generalized epilepsy; Quality of life; Seizure outcome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APRAXIA; ARTICLE; BONE FLAP INFECTION; BRAIN SURGERY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORPUS CALLOSOTOMY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DISCONNECTION SYNDROME; DROP ATTACK; DYSARTHRIA; FEMALE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRIPLEGIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CORPUS CALLOSUM; EPILEPSY, TONIC-CLONIC; FEMALE; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES; SYNCOPE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84889079072     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0000000000000161     Document Type: Article

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