Idiopathic partial epilepsy: Electroclinical demonstration of a prolonged seizure with sequential rolandic and occipital involvement. Seizure spread due to regional susceptibility?

Epileptic Disorders

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 35-40

  Parmeggiani, Lucio ^a   Guerrini, Renzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Idiopathic partial epilepsy; Occipital seizures; Rolandic seizures

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE REPORT; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE CELL; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; ROLANDIC EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBE; VIDEORECORDING;

BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; EPILEPSY, ROLANDIC; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; NEURONS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 0033085776     PISSN: 12949361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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