Epileptic blindness in children: A localizing sign of various epileptic disorders

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 237-241

  Shahar, Eli ^a   Desatnik, Howard ^b   Brand, Natan ^b   Straussberg, Rachel ^b   Hwang, Paul A ^c  

^a RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

CT; EEG; Epileptic blindness; Ictal blindness; MRI

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE;

ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BLINDNESS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; RECURRENT DISEASE; SEIZURE;

EID: 0030217861     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0303-8467(96)00033-9     Document Type: Article

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