Infantile spasms

Current Problems in Pediatrics

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 1985, Pages 6-39

  Glaze, Daniel G ^a   Zion, Thomas E ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CORTICOTROPIN; PREDNISONE;

ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; CHRONIC BRAIN DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANTILE SPASM; MALE; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; REM SLEEP; SYNDROME;

ANTICONVULSANTS; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; BRAIN DISEASES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLINICAL TRIALS; CORTICOTROPIN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PREDNISONE; PROGNOSIS; SLEEP, REM; SPASMS, INFANTILE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SYNDROME;

EID: 0022149819     PISSN: 00459380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0045-9380(85)90007-6     Document Type: Article

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