Startle-induced epilepsy in a patient with epidermal nevus syndrome

Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 346-349

  Sasaki, Masayuki ^a,c   Matsuda, Hiroshi ^a   Arai, Yukio ^b   Hashimoto, Toshiaki ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b Medical Center for the Handicapped   (Japan)

^c National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; NEVUS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STARTLE REFLEX;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ATROPHY; BRAIN; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TONIC-CLONIC; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FACIAL HEMIATROPHY; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL RETARDATION; MICROCEPHALY; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; NEVUS, PIGMENTED; SKIN NEOPLASMS; STARTLE REACTION; SYNDROME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0031896735     PISSN: 08878994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0887-8994(97)00191-4     Document Type: Article

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