Periventricular leukomalacia and West syndrome

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 13-18

  Okumura, Akihisa ^a   Hayakawa, Fumio ^a   Kuno, Kuniyoshi ^a   Watanabe, Kazuyoshi ^b  

^a ANJO KOSEI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPSARRHYTHMIA; INFANT; LEUKOMALACIA; MALE; MUSCLE SPASM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SPIKE WAVE; WEST SYNDROME;

EID: 0030024890     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.1996.tb15027.x     Document Type: Article

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