Gelastic epilepsy: Symptomatic and cryptogenic cases

Epilepsia

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 294-302

  Striano, Salvatore ^a,b   Meo, Roberta ^a   Bilo, Leonilda ^a   Cirillo, Sossio ^a   Nocerino, Cristofaro ^a   Ruosi, Patrizia ^a   Striano, Pasquale ^a   Estraneo, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Drug resistant epilepsy; Gelastic seizures; Hypothalamic hamartoma; Magnetic resonance imaging; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE; CARBAMAZEPINE; CORTICOTROPIN; FELBAMATE; LAMOTRIGINE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; VALPROIC ACID; VIGABATRIN;

ADULT; ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FEMALE; HAMARTOMA; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SEIZURE; TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS;

EID: 0032956131     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1999.tb00707.x     Document Type: Article

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