Infantile spasms

Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 89-98

  Wong, Michael ^a   Trevathan, Edwin ^a  

^a ST LOUIS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CORTICOTROPIN; FELBAMATE; GLUCOCORTICOID; LAMOTRIGINE; NITRAZEPAM; PREDNISONE; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID; VIGABATRIN; ZONISAMIDE;

CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPSARRHYTHMIA; INFANTILE SPASM; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MORTALITY; OSTEOPOROSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SIDE EFFECT; WEST SYNDROME;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANTICONVULSANTS; BRAIN; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INFANT; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SEIZURES; SPASMS, INFANTILE;

EID: 0035057494     PISSN: 08878994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0887-8994(00)00238-1     Document Type: Review

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