Efficacy of postoperative seizure prophylaxis in intra-axial brain tumor resections

Journal of Neuro-Oncology

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 117-122

  Ansari, Shaheryar F ^a   Bohnstedt, Bradley N ^a   Perkins, Susan M ^a   Althouse, Sandra K ^a   Miller, James C ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anticonvulsants; Brain neoplasms; Neurosurgery; Postoperative complications; Seizure

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN PROTECTION; BRAIN TUMOR; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLIOMA; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRESCRIPTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGERY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SEIZURES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTICONVULSANTS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84901626485     PISSN: 0167594X     EISSN: 15737373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11060-014-1402-9     Document Type: Article

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