Surgical Treatment of Frontal Lobe Epilepsy
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Surgical treatment of drug-resistant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy.
Of the cases with nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy (NFLE) approximately 30% are refractory to antiepileptic medication, with several patients suffering from the effects of both ongoing seizures and disrupted sleep. From a consecutive series of 522 patients operated on for drug-resistant focal epilepsy, 21 cases (4%), whose frontal lobe seizures occurred almost exclusively (>90%) during sleep, we...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Epilepsia
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0013-9580,1528-1167
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1997.tb00108.x