Resection strategies in tumoral epilepsy: Is a lesionectomy enough'

Epilepsia

Volumn 54, Issue SUPPL. 9, 2013, Pages 72-78

  Tandon, Nitin ^a   Esquenazi, Yoshua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Lesionectomy; Low grade tumors; Temporal lobectomy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LESIONECTOMY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LOW-GRADE TUMORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGERY; PATIENT MONITORING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; COMPLICATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

EPILEPSY; LESIONECTOMY; LOW-GRADE TUMORS; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84894305575     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/epi.12448     Document Type: Article

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