Gelastic epilepsy: Video-EEG, MRI and SPECT characteristics

Brain and Development

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 418-421

  Iannetti, Paola ^a   Spalice, Alberto ^a   Raucci, Umberto ^a   Atzei, Giampiero ^b   Cipriani, Cesidio ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b S EUGENIO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Gelastic epilepsy; MRI; SPECT; Video EEG

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN LATERAL VENTRICLE; BRAIN PERFUSION; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM; CONVULSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; FRONTAL CORTEX; HAMARTOMA; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS DISEASE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PATHOGENESIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

BRAIN; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; LAUGHTER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0030761714     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0387-7604(97)00042-9     Document Type: Article

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