Gelastic epilepsy caused by hypothalamic hamartoma [2]

Lancet

Volumn 356, Issue 9233, 2000, Pages 940-

  Engelborghs, Sebastian ^a   Mariën, Peter ^a   De Deyn, Peter Paul ^b  

^a MIDDELHEIM HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN TUMOR; CASE REPORT; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTOGENESIS; HAMARTOMA; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS TUMOR; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

EID: 0034626132     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(05)73921-0     Document Type: Letter

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