Circling Seizures in a Case with Wilson's Disease

Clinical EEG and Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 118-121

  Saka, Esen ^a   Elibol, Bülent ^a   Saygi, Serap ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Circling; Epilepsy; Frontal Lobe; Seizures; Wilson's Disease

Indexed keywords

CERULOPLASMIN; COPPER; PENICILLAMINE; PHENYTOIN; PYRIDOXINE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CIRCLING BEHAVIOR; DYSARTHRIA; DYSTONIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TREMOR; WILSON DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, FRONTAL LOBE; HEPATOLENTICULAR DEGENERATION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE;

EID: 0033489895     PISSN: 15500594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/155005949903000309     Document Type: Article

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