Clinical study on localization-related epilepsy in infancy without underlying disorders

Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 26-30

  Takeuchi, Yoshihiro ^a   Matsushita, Hiroko ^a   Yamazoe, Ichiro ^a   Nagai, Hideyuki ^a   Takaya, Kazushi ^b   Fujiwara, Fumihiro ^b   Sawada, Tadashi ^a  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NANTAN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG EFFICACY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE;

ANTICONVULSANTS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; EPILEPSY, COMPLEX PARTIAL; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MENTAL RETARDATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPASMS, INFANTILE;

EID: 0031816102     PISSN: 08878994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0887-8994(98)00007-1     Document Type: Article

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