Epileptic spasms preceded by partial seizures with a close temporal association

Epilepsia

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1572-1579

  Kubota, Toshiko ^a   Aso, Kosaburo ^a   Negoro, Tamiko ^a   Okumura, Akihisa ^a   Natsume, Jun ^a   Takada, Hiroyuki ^a   Itomi, Kazuya ^a   Watanabe, Kazuyoshi ^a   Yamamoto, Naoki ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Aihoku Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Development; Epileptic spasms; Infant; Partial seizure; West syndrome

Indexed keywords

AICARDI SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPLASIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; HYPSARRHYTHMIA; MALE; MICROCEPHALY; NONKETOTIC DIABETIC COMA; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS; WEST SYNDROME;

AGE OF ONSET; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMORBIDITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; SPASMS, INFANTILE; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 0032724593     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1999.tb02042.x     Document Type: Article

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