Global brain dysfunction in an infant with pyridoxine dependency: Evaluation with EEG, evoked potentials, MRI, and PET

Neurology

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 824-826

  Shih, Jerry J ^a   Kornblum, Harley ^b   Shewmon, D Alan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PYRIDOXINE;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED RESPONSE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRIDOXINE DEFICIENCY;

EID: 0029836485     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.47.3.824     Document Type: Article

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