Severe myoclonic epilepsy in infancy. An analytical epidemiological study;Epilepsia mioclonica severa de la infancia. Estudio epidemiologico analitico

Revista de Neurologia

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 620-624

  Nieto Barrera, M ^a  

^a Hospital Infanta Luisa   (Spain)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Fever convulsions; Infant epilepsy; Severe myoclonic epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONVULSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VACCINATION; BLOOD; BRAIN; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; VASCULARIZATION;

IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, MYOCLONIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0034174158     PISSN: 02100010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.33588/rn.3007.2000016     Document Type: Article

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