Severe myoclonic epilepsy in infants - a review based on the Tokyo Women's Medical University series of 84 cases

Brain and Development

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 736-748

  Oguni, Hirokazu ^a   Hayashi, Kitami ^a   Awaya, Yutaka ^b   Fukuyama, Yukio ^c   Osawa, Makiko ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Seibo Byoin   (Japan)

^c Kyushu University   (Japan)

Author keywords

Borderland group; Constant light sensitivity; Fever sensitivity; Fever sensitive grand mal; Myoclonic seizures; Myoclonus; Severe myoclonic epilepsy in infants

Indexed keywords

ABSENCE; BATH; BODY TEMPERATURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FEMALE; FEVER; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DEVELOPMENT; MYOCLONUS; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; MYOCLONUS SEIZURE; ONSET AGE; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, MYOCLONIC; HUMANS; INFANT; TOKYO;

EID: 0034778243     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0387-7604(01)00276-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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