Endoscopic corpus callosotomy: An animal study

Journal of Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 25-28

  Shane Tubbs, R ^a   Smyth, Matthew D ^b   Salter, George ^a   Blount, Jeffrey P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Minimally invasive; Seizure; Surgery

Indexed keywords

EID: 85013610676     PISSN: 13042580     EISSN: 13050613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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