Clinical heterogeneity in genetically determined idiopathic epilepsy;Heterogeneity clinique dans les epilepsies idiopathiques genetiquement determinees

Epilepsies

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 7-15

  Picard, Fabienne ^a,b   Hirsch, Edouard ^a   Marescaux, Christian ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM CHANNEL;

EPILEPSY; GENE MUTATION; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; TWINS;

EID: 0033927386     PISSN: 11496576     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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