A survey of epilepsy surgery in India

Seizure

Volumn 26, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-4

  Menon, Ramshekhar N ^a   Radhakrishnan, Kurupath ^b  

^a SREE CHITRA TIRUNAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b KASTURBA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Drug resistant epilepsy; Epilepsy surgery; India; Temporal trends

Indexed keywords

ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPSY SURGERY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROSURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; MALE; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84925358001     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: 15322688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2015.01.005     Document Type: Article

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