The origin of hypsarrhythmia and tonic spasms in West syndrome: Evidence from a case of porencephaly and hydrocephalus with focal hypsarrhythmia

Brain and Development

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 129-131

  Haginoya, Kazuhiroa ^a   Kon, Kimiya ^a   Tanaka, Soichiro ^a   Munakata, Mitsutoshi ^a   Kato, Rie ^a   Nagai, Mayumi ^a   Yokoyama, Hiroyuki ^a   Maruoka, Shin ^a   Yamazaki, Tetsuro ^a   Iinuma, Kazuie ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hypsarrhythmia; Infantile spasms; Single photon emission computed tomography; Tonic spasms; West syndrome

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYPSARRHYTHMIA; INFANTILE SPASM; PORENCEPHALY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; WEST SYNDROME;

BRAIN; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLUM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SPASM; SPASMS, INFANTILE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0032976773     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0387-7604(98)00082-5     Document Type: Article

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