Stereotactic laser ablation of epileptogenic periventricular nodular heterotopia

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 547-554

  Esquenazi, Yoshua ^a   Kalamangalam, Giridhar P ^a   Slater, Jeremy D ^a   Knowlton, Robert C ^a   Friedman, Elliott ^a   Morris, Saint Aaron ^a   Shetty, Anil ^b   Gowda, Ashok ^b   Tandon, Nitin ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b Visualase Inc   (United States)

^c MEMORIAL HERMANN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortical dysplasia periventricular nodular heterotopia; Epilepsy surgery; Medically refractory epilepsy; MRI guided laser ablation; Thermal therapy

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GADOLINIUM; STEROID;

ABLATION CATHETER; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SURGERY; CASE REPORT; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CRANIOTOMY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPH ELECTRODE; EPILEPTIC AURA; FEMALE; FLUENCY DISORDER; FOLLOW UP; FRONTAL LOBE EPILEPSY; HIPPOCAMPUS RESECTION; HOMONYMOUS HEMIANOPIA; HUMAN; LASER SURGERY; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MESIAL TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; ONSET AGE; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PERIVENTRICULAR HETEROTOPIA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; STEREOTACTIC MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGE GUIDED LASER INTERSTITIAL THERMAL THERAPY; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL DRILL; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

CORTICAL DYSPLASIA PERIVENTRICULAR NODULAR HETEROTOPIA; EPILEPSY SURGERY; MEDICALLY REFRACTORY EPILEPSY; MRI GUIDED LASER ABLATION; THERMAL THERAPY;

ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LASER THERAPY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIVENTRICULAR NODULAR HETEROTOPIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84895475077     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: 18726844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2014.01.009     Document Type: Article

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