Effects of high-dose intravenous corticosteroid therapy in Landau- Kleffner syndrome

Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 145-147

  Tsuru, Tomohiko ^a   Mori, Masato ^a   Mizuguchi, Masashi ^a   Momoi, Mariko Y ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE SODIUM SUCCINATE; PREDNISOLONE; VALPROIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; LANDAU KLEFFNER SYNDROME; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SPEECH DISORDER; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; APHASIA; CHILD; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LANDAU-KLEFFNER SYNDROME; MALE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE; PULSE THERAPY, DRUG; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033951155     PISSN: 08878994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0887-8994(99)00127-7     Document Type: Article

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