Infantile spasms: A proposal for a staged evaluation

Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 368-371

  Trasmonte, Joseph V ^a   Barron, Todd F ^a,b  

^a PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANTILE SPASM; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGORITHMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPASMS, INFANTILE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0032214810     PISSN: 08878994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0887-8994(98)00080-0     Document Type: Article

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