The efficacy of the valproic acid-ethosuximide association in the continuous slow point-wave syndrome during sleep;Eficacia de la asociacion acido valproico-etosuximida en el sindrome de punta-onda lenta continua durante el sueno

Neurologia

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 335-338

  Ribacoba, R ^a,e   Salas Puig, J ^b   Solar, D M ^a   Otero, B ^c   Herranz, J L ^d  

^a HOSPITAL ÁLVAREZ BUYLLA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO CENTRAL DE ASTURIAS   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL DE CABUEÑES   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO MARQUÉS DE VALDECILLA   (Spain)

^e NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Epilepsy with continuous spikes and waves during slow sleep; Ethosuximide; Sodium valproate

Indexed keywords

ETHOSUXIMIDE; VALPROIC ACID; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CASE REPORT; DRUG EFFICACY; DYSARTHRIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING DISORDER; NONREM SLEEP; PROGNOSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SLEEP; SLOW WAVE SLEEP; SPIKE WAVE; BRAIN; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; REM SLEEP; SCINTISCANNING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ANTICONVULSANTS; BRAIN; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; ETHOSUXIMIDE; FEMALE; HUMANS; SLEEP, REM; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VALPROIC ACID;

EID: 0030710090     PISSN: 02134853     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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