Treatment of infantile spasms

Annals of Pharmacotherapy

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 1994, Pages 779-791

  Haines, Stuart T ^a   Casto, Daniel T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLONAZEPAM; CORTICOTROPIN; DIAZEPAM; HYDANTOIN DERIVATIVE; NITRAZEPAM; PHENOBARBITAL; PREDNISONE; PROTIRELIN; SUCCINIMIDE DERIVATIVE; TETRACOSACTIDE; VALPROIC ACID; VIGABATRIN;

ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFICACY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANTILE SPASM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

4-AMINOBUTYRATE TRANSAMINASE; ANTICONVULSANTS; BENZODIAZEPINES; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREDNISONE; SPASMS, INFANTILE; VALPROIC ACID; VIGABATRIN;

EID: 0028217592     PISSN: 10600280     EISSN: 15426270     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/106002809402800616     Document Type: Article

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