Sympathetic storms in a child with a midbrain glioma: A variant of diencephalic seizures

Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 742-744

  Goh, Keith Y C ^a   Conway, Edward J ^a   Darosso, Robert C ^a   Muszynski, Cheryl A ^a   Epstein, Fred J ^a  

^a Dept Pediat Neurosurg Pediat C ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLONIDINE;

ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; EPILEPTOGENESIS; EXCISION; GLIOMA; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; SYMPATHETIC TONE;

ANTICONVULSANTS; ASTROCYTOMA; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CLONIDINE; CRANIOTOMY; DIENCEPHALON; HUMANS; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; PHENYTOIN; REMISSION INDUCTION; SEIZURES; SYMPATHOLYTICS;

EID: 0032723173     PISSN: 08878994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0887-8994(99)00069-7     Document Type: Article

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