Familial idiopathic West syndrome

Journal of Child Neurology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 249-252

  Reiter, Edith ^a   Tiefenthaler, Monika ^a   Freilinger, Michael ^a   Bernert, Günther ^a   Seidl, Rainer ^a,b   Hauser, Erwin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; HYPSARRHYTHMIA; INFANT; INFANTILE SPASM; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NEURORADIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR DEVELOPMENT; SEIZURE; WEST SYNDROME;

EID: 0034070586     PISSN: 08830738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/088307380001500409     Document Type: Article

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