Unilateral polymicrogyria: A common cause of hemiplegia of prenatal origin

Brain and Development

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 216-222

  Pascual Castroviejo, Ignacio ^a   Pascual Pascual, Samuel Ignacio ^a   Viaño, Juan ^b   Martinez, Vicente ^b   Palencia, Rafael ^c  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA PAZ   (Spain)

^b Sanatorio del Rosario   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL CLÍNICO UNIVERSITARIO DE VALLADOLID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Duplication of the short arm of the chromosome X; Epilepsy; Hemiparesis; Polymicrogyria; Three dimensional magnetic resonance; Unilateral polymicrogyria

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHILD; CHROMOSOME ARM; CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEMIPLEGIA; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFANTILE SPASM; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MICROGYRIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DISORDER; SEIZURE; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; X CHROMOSOME;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN DISEASES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; SEIZURES;

EID: 0035007769     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0387-7604(01)00211-X     Document Type: Article

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