Drop episodes in Coffin-Lowry syndrome: Exaggerated startle responses treated with clonazepam

Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 148-150

  Nakamura, Miki ^a   Yamagata, Takanori ^a   Momoi, Mariko Y ^a   Yamazaki, Toyo ^b  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Yamazaki Pediatric Clinic   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLONAZEPAM;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COFFIN LOWRY SYNDROME; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; FALLING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEG MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STARTLE REFLEX; TACTILE STIMULATION;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ADULT; ANTICONVULSANTS; CLONAZEPAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FACIAL BONES; FACIES; FEMALE; HAND DEFORMITIES, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; LEG; MENTAL RETARDATION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; STARTLE REACTION; SYNDROME;

EID: 0031657681     PISSN: 08878994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0887-8994(98)00029-0     Document Type: Article

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