TY - CHAP
T1 - Non-Substrate-Directed Partial Epilepsy
AU - Williams, Korwyn
AU - Noe, Katherine H.
PY - 2011/3/18
Y1 - 2011/3/18
KW - Classification of seizure type and epilepsy syndrome - determining prognosis and treatment
KW - Genetic, or IPE syndromes - idiopathic focal epilepsies, demonstrating complex inheritance patterns, with mutifactorial genetic and environmental influences
KW - Localization-related epilepsy - more common than generalized epilepsy, prognosis for seizure control and remission variable
KW - MRI lesion resection, and postoperative seizure freedom - in about seventy percent of refractory epilepsy patients
KW - Medically refractory epilepsy, and good surgical outcome - structural abnormality detection, with complete resection
KW - Non-substrate-directed partial epilepsy
KW - Partial epilepsy, and underlying CNS structural lesion or disorders
KW - Positron emission tomography (PET) - noninvasive technology, for cerebral metabolism evaluation using different ligands
KW - Seizures in two-thirds of those with epilepsy - well controlled with medical therapy
KW - Selected idiopathic partial epilepsy syndromes
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U2 - 10.1002/9780470975039.ch16
DO - 10.1002/9780470975039.ch16
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84886017587
SN - 9780470741221
SP - 271
EP - 283
BT - Adult Epilepsy
PB - John Wiley and Sons
ER -