Startle epilepsy with infantile hemiplegia: Report of two cases improved by surgery

Epilepsia

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 93-98

  Oguni, Hirokazu ^a   Hayashi, Kitami ^a   Usui, Norihisa ^a   Osawa, Makiko ^a   Shimizu, Hiroyuki ^b  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN NEUROLOGICAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Drop attacks; Epilepsy surgery; Infantile hemiplegia; Startle epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; CORPUS CALLOSUM TRANSSECTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCHOOL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SOCIAL LIFE; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; STARTLE REFLEX;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; CORPUS CALLOSUM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; QUALITY OF LIFE; STARTLE REACTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031950825     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1998.tb01280.x     Document Type: Article

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