Zonisamide monotherapy in newly diagnosed infantile spasms

Epilepsia

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1035-1038

  Suzuki, Yasuhiro ^a,b   Nagai, Toshisaburo ^a,f   Ono, Jiro ^a,f   Imai, Katsumi ^a,b   Otani, Kazumasa ^b   Tagawa, Tetsuzo ^c   Abe, Jiro ^d   Shiomi, Masashi ^e   Okada, Shintaro ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH   (Japan)

^c OSAKA KOSEI NENKIN HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d Hyogo Prefectural Nishinomiya Hospital   (Japan)

^e OSAKA CITY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^f TOYONAKA MUNICIPAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Infant; Infantile spasms; Treatment; West syndrome; Zonisamide

Indexed keywords

PYRIDOXINE; ZONISAMIDE;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPSARRHYTHMIA; INFANTILE SPASM; MALE; MUSCLE SPASM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; SEIZURE; WEST SYNDROME;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANTICONVULSANTS; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INFANT; ISOXAZOLES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPASMS, INFANTILE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030881933     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1997.tb01488.x     Document Type: Article

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