Surgical treatment of pediatric epileptic encephalopathies

Epilepsy Research and Treatment

Volumn 2013, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Fridley, J ^a   Reddy, G ^a   Curry, D ^a,b   Agadi, S ^a,c  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TEXAS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Department of Pediatrics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AKINESIA; APRAXIA; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; BRAIN; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN SURGERY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CORPUS CALLOSOTOMY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DISCONNECTION SYNDROME; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; HEMIPARESIS; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HEMISPHEROTOMY; HUMAN; HYPSARRHYTHMIA; LANDAU KLEFFNER SYNDROME; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LENNOX GASTAUT SYNDROME; LESIONECTOMY; LOBECTOMY; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); MULTIPLE SUBPIAL TRANSECTION; MUTISM; MYOCLONIC ASTATIC EPILEPSY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OHTAHARA SYNDROME; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SEVERE MYOCLONIC EPILEPSY IN INFANCY; SPEECH DISORDER; STEREOTACTIC THERMAL ABLATION; STEREOTACTIC TREATMENT; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; THERMOGRAPHY; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; WEST SYNDROME;

EID: 84977481516     PISSN: 20901348     EISSN: 20901356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2013/720841     Document Type: Review

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