Landau-Kleffner syndrome: Sleep EEG characteristics at onset

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 111, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2000, Pages

  Massa, Rita ^a,b   De Saint Martin, Anne ^a   Hirsch, Edouard ^a   Marescaux, Christian ^a   Motte, Jacques ^c   Seegmuller, Caroline ^a   Kleitz, Catherine ^a   Metz Lutz, Marie Noëlle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF STRASBOURG   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^c REIMS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Acquired aphasia; Benign epilepsy with centro temporal spikes; Early diagnosis; Landau Kleffner syndrome; Sleep EEG

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APHASIA; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; BENIGN EPILEPSY WITH CENTRO TEMPORAL SPIKES; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; LANDAU KLEFFNER SYNDROME; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP PATTERN; SLOW BRAIN WAVE;

AGE OF ONSET; BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANDAU-KLEFFNER SYNDROME; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SLEEP; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0034282110     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-2457(00)00407-7     Document Type: Article

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