Epilepsy Surgery in Countries with Limited Resources

The Treatment of Epilepsy: Third Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1051-1056

  Palmini, Andre ^a  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazilian experience; Epilepsy surgery in countries with limited resources; Lesionectomy plus electrocorticography guided corticectomy; Minimum requirements for epilepsy surgery; Minimum requirements to run epilepsy surgery programme; Optimizing allocation of limited technological resources; Stepwise approach

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891503090     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444316667.ch85     Document Type: Chapter

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