Unusually prolonged survival and childhood-onset epilepsy in a case of alobar holoprosencephaly

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 274-277

  Veneselli, Edvige ^a   Biancheri, Roberta ^a   Di Rocco, Maja ^b   Fondelli, Maria Paola ^b   Perrone, Maria Viviana ^a   Donati, Paolo Tortori ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b G GASLINI INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Craniofacial malformations; Epilepsy; Holoprosencephaly; Survival

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN MALFORMATION; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; EPILEPSY; HOLOPROSENCEPHALY; HUMAN; INFANTILE SPASM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SURVIVAL RATE;

CHILD; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; FACIES; FEMALE; HOLOPROSENCEPHALY; HUMANS; SURVIVORS;

EID: 0032976024     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003810050392     Document Type: Article

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