Selecting Patients for Epilepsy Surgery

Abstract About one third of patients with focal epilepsy experience seizures despite adequate medical treatment. In this population, successful epilepsy surgery improves life expectancy and health-related quality of life, while reducing health care costs as a result of reduced hospital admissions, e...
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Autor*in:

Unnwongse, Kanjana [verfasserIn]

Wehner, Tim [verfasserIn]

Foldvary-Schaefer, Nancy [verfasserIn]

Format:

E-Artikel

Sprache:

Englisch

Erschienen:

2010

Schlagwörter:

Epilepsy surgery

Drug-resistant epilepsy

Pharmacoresistant epilepsy

Medically intractable epilepsy

Video EEG

Presurgical evaluation

Focal epilepsy

Seizure semiology

Aura

MRI

Neuropsychology

Nuclear imaging

Übergeordnetes Werk:

Enthalten in: Current neurology and neuroscience reports - Philadelphia, Pa. : Current Science Inc., 2001, 10(2010), 4 vom: 02. Mai, Seite 299-307

Übergeordnetes Werk:

volume:10 ; year:2010 ; number:4 ; day:02 ; month:05 ; pages:299-307

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DOI / URN:

10.1007/s11910-010-0114-6

Katalog-ID:

SPR022972625

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