Adrenocorticotropic hormone and vigabatrin treatment of children with infantile spasms underlying cerebral palsy

Brain and Development

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 450-452

  Zafeiriou, Dimitrios I ^a   Kontopoulos, Eleutherios E ^a   Tsikoulas, Ioannis G ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Adrenocorticotropic hormone; Cerebral palsy; Infantile spasm; Static encephalopathy; Vigabatrin; West syndrome

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; VIGABATRIN;

ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; CEREBRAL PALSY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CUSHING SYNDROME; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFANT; INFANTILE SPASM; INFECTION; MALE; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; MUSCLE TONE; PROGNOSIS; SOMNOLENCE;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANTICONVULSANTS; CEREBRAL PALSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PROGNOSIS; SPASMS, INFANTILE; VIGABATRIN;

EID: 0030293792     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0387-7604(96)00045-9     Document Type: Article

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