Serial electroencephalographic findings in patients with MELAS

Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 43-48

  Fujimoto, Shinji ^a   Mizuno, Kumiko ^c   Shibata, Hideo ^a   Kanayama, Manabu ^b   Kobayashi, Masanori ^b   Sugiyama, Naruji ^b   Ban, Kyoko ^b   Ishikawa, Tatsuya ^a   Itoh, Tamiko ^e   Togari, Hajime ^b   Wada, Yoshiro ^b  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIV MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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^d Japan

^e Nagoya Midori Municipal Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; LACTIC ACIDOSIS; MALE; MELAS SYNDROME; MITOCHONDRIAL MYOPATHY; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNDROME DELINEATION;

ADOLESCENT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DELTA RHYTHM; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELAS SYNDROME; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032956414     PISSN: 08878994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0887-8994(98)00088-5     Document Type: Article

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