Risk Factors for Preoperative Seizures and Loss of Seizure Control in Patients Undergoing Surgery for Metastatic Brain Tumors

World Neurosurgery

Volumn 104, Issue , 2017, Pages 120-128

  Wu, Adela ^a   Weingart, Jon D ^b   Gallia, Gary L ^b   Lim, Michael ^b   Brem, Henry ^b   Bettegowda, Chetan ^b   Chaichana, Kaisorn L ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain tumor; Cancer; Engel class; Metastatic; Seizures; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN TUMOR; CLINICAL OUTCOME; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DISEASE CONTROL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCIPITAL LOBE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TUMOR INVASION; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CAUSALITY; COMORBIDITY; INCIDENCE; MORTALITY; NEUROSURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SECONDARY; SEIZURES; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CAUSALITY; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEIZURES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 85020039675     PISSN: 18788750     EISSN: 18788769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wneu.2017.05.028     Document Type: Article

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