Periventricular leukomalacia and epilepsy: Incidence and seizure pattern

Neurology

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 341-345

  Gurses, C ^a,b   Gross, D W ^a   Andermann, Frederick ^a   Bastos, A ^a   Dubeau, F ^a   Calay, M ^b   Eraksoy, M ^b   Bezci, S ^c   Andermann, E ^a   Melanson, D ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c Turkish Spastic Children's Society   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALOMALACIA; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033555560     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/wnl.52.2.341     Document Type: Article

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