Recurrent seizures in metachromatic leukodystrophy

Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 150-154

  Balslev, Thomas ^a   Cortez, Miguel A ^a   Blaser, Susan I ^a   Haslam, Robert H A ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; DEMYELINATION; FEMALE; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HUMAN; LYSOSOME STORAGE DISEASE; MALE; METACHROMATIC LEUKODYSTROPHY; ONSET AGE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, COMPLEX PARTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; LEUKODYSTROPHY, METACHROMATIC; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEIZURES;

EID: 0030725762     PISSN: 08878994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0887-8994(97)00077-5     Document Type: Article

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