Acquired epileptic aphasia;Afasia epiléptica adquirida

Revista de Neurologia

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 899-907

  Caraballo, R H ^a   Yepez I I ^a   Soprano, A L ^a   Cersosimo R O ^a   Medina, C ^a   Fejerman, N ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE PEDIATRÍA PROF DR JUAN P GARRAHAN   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Landau Kleffner syndrome; Treatment; Verbal auditory agnosia

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; CORTICOSTEROID; ETHOSUXIMIDE; VALPROIC ACID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGNOSIA; APHASIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; ONSET AGE; SCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH; SPIKE WAVE; AROUSAL; BRAIN; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HISTOLOGY; HOSPITALIZATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REM SLEEP;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APHASIA; AROUSAL; BRAIN; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SLEEP, REM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0033226689     PISSN: 02100010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.33588/rn.2910.99150     Document Type: Article

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