Severe idiopathic generalized epilepsy of infancy with generalized tonic-clonic seizures

Neuropediatrics

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 229-238

  Doose, H ^a,d   Lunau, Heike ^b   Castiglione, Eva ^a   Waltz, S ^c  

^a Epilepsy Center   (Germany)

^b Neuropediatric Department ^*  (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^d Norddeutsches Epilepsiezentrum   (Germany)

Author keywords

Epilepsy genetics; Generalized tonic clonic seizures; Idiopathic epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DEVELOPMENT; MORTALITY; PATHOGENESIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

AGE OF ONSET; ANTICONVULSANTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPSY, TONIC-CLONIC; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MENTAL RETARDATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES, FEBRILE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT FAILURE; VACCINATION;

EID: 0031671808     PISSN: 0174304X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-973567     Document Type: Article

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