ACTH therapy in infantile spasms: Relationship between dose of ACTH and initial effect or long-term prognosis

Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1990, Pages 240-244

  Ito, Masatoshi ^a   Okuno, Takehiko ^a   Fujii, Tatsuya ^a   Mutoh, Kozo ^a   Oguro, Katsuhiko ^a   Shiraishi, Hideyuki ^a   Shirasaka, Yukiyoshi ^a   Mikawa, Haruki ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; TETRACOSACTIDE ZINC PHOSPHATE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANTILE SPASM; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGNOSIS;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CORTICOTROPIN; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMAN; INFANT; SPASMS, INFANTILE;

EID: 0025075870     PISSN: 08878994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0887-8994(90)90114-G     Document Type: Article

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