Infantile Spasms: An Early Epileptic Manifestation in Some Patients With the Congenital Bilateral Perisylvian Syndrome

Journal of Child Neurology

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1994, Pages 420-423

  Kuzniecky, Ruben ^a   Andermann, Frederick ^a   Guerrini, Renzo ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROSCIENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CORTICOTROPIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BILATERAL PERISYLVIAN SYNDROME; CASE REPORT; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANTILE SPASM; MALE; MENTAL DEVELOPMENT; MICROGYRIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPRASYLVIAN GYRUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTICONVULSANTS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; DYSARTHRIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; FACIAL PARALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMAN; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL RETARDATION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; SPASMS, INFANTILE; SYNDROME; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0028651883     PISSN: 08830738     EISSN: 17088283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/088307389400900418     Document Type: Article

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