Familial partial epilepsy with variable foci: A new partial epilepsy syndrome with suggestion of linkage to chromosome 2

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 890-899

  Scheffer, Ingrid E ^a,b,d,f   Phillips, Hilary A ^e   O'Brien, Catherine E ^a   Saling, Michael M ^a   Wrennall, Jacqueline A ^c   Wallace, Robyn H ^e   Mulley, John C ^e   Berkovic, Samuel F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Department of Neurology ^*

^c Royal Children's Hospital

^d MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

^e WOMEN S AND CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^f AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHROMOSOME 2; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; MALE; ONSET AGE; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031767813     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.410440607     Document Type: Article

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