Symptomatic nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy

Seizure

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 341-343

  Oldani, Alessandro ^a,b   Ferini Strambi, Luigi ^a   Zucconi, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FATIGUE; FRONTAL LOBE EPILEPSY; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SLEEP PATTERN; SOMNOLENCE;

EID: 0031692994     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1059-1311(98)80030-7     Document Type: Article

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