Hemifacial seizures and cerebellar ganglioglioma: An epilepsy syndrome of infancy with seizures of cerebellar origin

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 91-98

  Harvey, A Simon ^a   Jayakar, Prasanna ^a   Duchowny, Michael ^a   Resnick, Trevor ^a   Prats, Antonio ^a   Altman, Nolan ^a   Renfroe, J Benjamin ^b  

^a MIAMI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Sacred Heart Hospital Pensacola   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLONAZEPAM; CYSTEINE ETHYL ESTER TC 99M; DIAZEPAM; GABAPENTIN; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; PRIMIDONE;

ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HEMIFACIAL SPASM; HUMAN; INFANT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NYSTAGMUS; PONS ANGLE TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

AGE OF ONSET; CEREBELLAR NEOPLASMS; CEREBELLUM; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FACIAL MUSCLES; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GANGLIOGLIOMA; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0029980059     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.410400115     Document Type: Article

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