Recent advances and some problems in the delineation of epileptic syndromes in children

Brain and Development

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 423-437

  Watanabe, Kazuyoshi ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Benign partial epilepsy; Child; Classification; Epileptic syndrome; Generalized epilepsy; Magnetic resonance imaging; Neonatal seizure; Positron emission tomography; West syndrome

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

AFFECTIVE NEUROSIS; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CHILD; DIARRHEA; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HUMAN; IMAGING; MUSCLE SPASM; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; OCCIPITAL LOBE; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SLOW WAVE SLEEP; WEST SYNDROME;

EID: 0030294559     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0387-7604(96)00052-6     Document Type: Article

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