Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry
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J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psychiatr. · Nov 2002
Long term outcome of temporal lobe epilepsy surgery: analyses of 140 consecutive patients.
To analyse the long term results of temporal lobe epilepsy surgery in a national epilepsy surgery centre for adults, and to evaluate preoperative factors predicting a good postoperative outcome on long term follow up. ⋯ Outcome at one year postoperatively is highly predictive of long term outcome after temporal lobe epilepsy surgery. Unitemporal MR imaging abnormalities, early onset of epilepsy, and seizure type predominance are factors associated with good postoperative outcome.
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J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psychiatr. · Nov 2002
Comment Letter Case ReportsHashimoto's encephalopathy mimicking Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: brain biopsy findings.
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J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psychiatr. · Nov 2002
ReviewAre functional motor and sensory symptoms really more frequent on the left? A systematic review.
To test the hypothesis that unilateral motor and sensory symptoms unexplained by identifiable disease are more common on the left side of the body than the right. ⋯ The findings of this systematic review question whether functional weakness and sensory symptoms do in fact occur more commonly on the left side of the body. A type of outcome variable reporting bias in combination with non-blinding of investigators may be responsible for this long held but erroneous belief.
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J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psychiatr. · Nov 2002
Comparative StudyEndovascular coiling versus neurosurgical clipping in patients with a ruptured basilar tip aneurysm.
To compare endovascular coiling with neurosurgical clipping of ruptured basilar bifurcation aneurysms. ⋯ The results suggest that embolisation with coils is the preferred treatment for patients with ruptured basilar bifurcation aneurysms.