Twenty-five patients underwent anterior corpus callosotomy (ACC) for treatment of uncontrolled seizures. Two patients died, and 6 patients experienced perioperative complications which resolved. A statistically significant reduction of generalized tonic-clonic seizures (17 patients; P < 0.05) and co
Corpus callosotomy in the treatment of secondary generalizing intractable epilepsy
β Scribed by Z. H. Rappaport; P. Lerman
- Publisher
- Springer Vienna
- Year
- 1988
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 356 KB
- Volume
- 94
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0001-6268
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