West syndrome and other infantile epileptic encephalopathies - Indian hospital experience

Brain and Development

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 593-602

  Kalra, Veena ^a   Gulati, Sheffali ^a   Pandey, Ravindra Mohan ^a   Menon, Shaji ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Early infantile epileptic encephalopathy in India; Early myoclonic encephalopathy in India; Infantile epileptic encephalopathies in India; Lennox Gastaut syndrome in India; West syndrome in India

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLOBAZAM; CLONAZEPAM; CORTICOTROPIN; LAMOTRIGINE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; PREDNISOLONE; VALPROIC ACID; VIGABATRIN;

BRAIN DISEASE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEVELOPMENT; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG EFFICACY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; HUMAN; INDIA; LENNOX GASTAUT SYNDROME; MEDICAL RECORD; MICROCEPHALY; ONSET AGE; PSYCHOMOTOR RETARDATION; RECURRENCE RISK; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; SEIZURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WEST SYNDROME;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANTICONVULSANTS; CHILD, HOSPITALIZED; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, MYOCLONIC; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MICROCEPHALY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPASMS, INFANTILE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034778074     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0387-7604(01)00288-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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