Benign familial neonatal convulsions followed by benign epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes in two siblings

Epilepsia

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 110-113

  Maihara, Toshiro ^a   Tsuji, Masahiro ^b   Higuchi, Yoshihisa ^b   Hattori, Haruo ^b  

^a SUWA RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Benign epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (BECT); Benign familial neonatal convulsions (BFNC); Epilepsy classification; Epilepsy genetics; Sibling cases

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLONIC SEIZURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIBLING; TONIC SEIZURE;

AGE OF ONSET; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FAMILY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PEDIGREE; SEIZURES;

EID: 0032917572     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1999.tb01997.x     Document Type: Article

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