Current management and surgical outcomes of medically intractable epilepsy

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 115, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2411-2418

  Ramey, Wyatt L ^a   Martirosyan, Nikolay L ^b   Lieu, Corinne M ^a   Hasham, Hasnain A ^a   Lemole, G Michael ^b   Weinand, Martin E ^b  

^a CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Hemispherectomy; Outcome; Surgery; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FISTULA; COMMUNICATING HYDROCEPHALUS; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; DEPRESSION; DYSPHASIA; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; GERSTMANN SYNDROME; HEMIANOPIA; HEMIHYPESTHESIA; HEMIPARESIS; HEMISENSORY SYNDROME; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFECTION; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; JAW PAIN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LIQUORRHEA; LUNG EMBOLISM; MEDICALLY INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MEMORY DISORDER; MENINGITIS; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEOCORTEX; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PARESIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PSYCHOSIS; REOPERATION; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VOMITING;

AED; ANTERIOR TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; ANTI-EPILEPTIC DRUG; ATL; EEG; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; ETLE; EXTRATEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; FDG-PET; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE POSITRON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEMIMEGALENCEPHALY; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HME; HS; MEDICALLY INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MIE; OUTCOME; RASMUSSEN'S ENCEPHALITIS; RE; SAH; SELECTIVE AMYGDALOHIPPOCAMPECTOMY; SURGERY; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ANTERIOR TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; DRUG RESISTANCE; EPILEPSY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HUMANS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; SEIZURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84889884688     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: 18726968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2013.09.035     Document Type: Review

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