Pediatric Neurology Briefs (Dec 2009)

Effect of Temporal Lobectomy for Epilepsy on Language Development

  • J Gordon Millichap

DOI
https://doi.org/10.15844/pedneurbriefs-23-12-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 23, no. 12
pp. 92 – 92

Abstract

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Language development was examined in 24 children (mean age 11 years; range 5.8-15.7 years) with AED intractable epilepsy before and 6, 12, and 24 months after anterior temporal lobectomy, in a study by the Dutch Collaborative Epilepsy Surgery Programme (DuCESP) at University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands.

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