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Surgery for drug-resistant focal epilepsy

During the colloquium on drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE) at National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore on August 16-18, 2013, a number of presentations were made on the surgically remediable lesional epilepsy syndromes, presurgical evaluation, surgical techniques, neuro...

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Autores principales: Rao, Malla Bhaskara, Arivazhagan, Arimappamagan, Sinha, Sanjib, Bharath, Rose Dawn, Mahadevan, Anita, Bhat, Maya, Satishchandra, Parthasarthy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4001234/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24791080
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-2327.128693
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Sumario:During the colloquium on drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE) at National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore on August 16-18, 2013, a number of presentations were made on the surgically remediable lesional epilepsy syndromes, presurgical evaluation, surgical techniques, neuropathology of drug resistance focal epilepsy and surgical outcome. This pictorial essay with the illustrative case examples provides an overview of the various surgical techniques for the management of drug-resistant focal epilepsy.