Developmental outcomes in children receiving resection surgery for medically intractable infantile spasms

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 430-440

  Asarnow, Robert F ^a   LoPresti, Christine ^a   Guthrie, Donald ^a   Elliott, Teresa ^b   Cynn, Virginia ^c   Shields, W Donald ^d   Shewmon, D Alan ^d   Sankar, Raman ^d   Peacock, Warwick J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Kapiolana Counseling Center   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CORTICOTROPIN;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANTILE SPASM; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; ONSET AGE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030743197     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.1997.tb07462.x     Document Type: Article

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