A special case of 'deafness'; the Landau-Kleffner syndrome;Een bijzonder geval van 'doofheid'; het syndroom van Landau-Kleffner

Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde

Volumn 141, Issue 33, 1997, Pages 1623-1625

  Stroink, H ^a   Van Dongen, H R ^a   Meulstee, J ^a   Scheltens De Boer, M ^a   Geesink, H H ^a  

^a SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; ETHOSUXIMIDE; PREDNISONE;

APHASIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; LANDAU KLEFFNER SYNDROME; MALE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HEARING DISORDERS; HUMANS; LANDAU-KLEFFNER SYNDROME; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREDNISONE; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0030873113     PISSN: 00282162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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