Prognostic value of positron emission tomography in cryptogenic West syndrome

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 107-111

  Itomi, Kazuya ^a   Okumura, Akihisa ^a   Negoro, Tamiko ^a   Watanabe, Kazuyoshi ^a   Natsume, Jun ^a   Takada, Hiroyuki ^a   Tadokoro, Masanori ^a   Ishigaki, Takeo ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; PROTIRELIN; PYRIDOXINE;

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANTILE SPASM; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; METABOLIC DISORDER; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SEIZURE THRESHOLD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; WEST SYNDROME;

CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SEIZURES; SLEEP, REM; SPASMS, INFANTILE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0036180534     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2002.tb00295.x     Document Type: Article

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