Focal features in West syndrome indicating candidacy for surgery

Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 213-217

  Kramer, Uri ^a,b,c   Sue, Whey Chen ^a   Mikati, Mohamad A ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c Institute for Child Development   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; HYPSARRHYTHMIA; INFANT; INFANTILE SPASM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROSURGERY; ONSET AGE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEST SYNDROME;

BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PATIENT SELECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPASMS, INFANTILE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031007948     PISSN: 08878994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0887-8994(97)00013-1     Document Type: Article

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