Acute stress-induced seizures and loss of consciousness in a ten-year-old boy with cutaneous mastocytosis [1]

Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 221-224

  Pehlivanidis, Christos ^a   Fotoulaki, Maria ^a   Boucher, William ^a   Kempuraj, Duraisamy ^a   Pang, Xinzhu ^a   Konstantinidou, Aphrodite ^a   Theoharides, Theoharis C ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; CYTOKINE; DOXEPIN; HISTAMINE; HYDROXYZINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; LEUKOTRIENE C4; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PROSTAGLANDIN D2; PROTEINASE; PROTEOGLYCAN; STEM CELL FACTOR; TRYPTASE; VALPROIC ACID;

CASE REPORT; CHILD; DROWSINESS; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LETTER; MALE; MAST CELL; MAST CELL DEGRANULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SKIN BIOPSY; STRESS; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; URTICARIA PIGMENTOSA;

BIOPSY; CHILD; EPILEPSY, TONIC-CLONIC; HISTAMINE; HUMANS; MALE; MAST CELLS; MASTOCYTOSIS; PSYCHONEUROIMMUNOLOGY; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SKIN; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TRYPTASES; URTICARIA PIGMENTOSA;

EID: 0036214939     PISSN: 02710749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004714-200204000-00019     Document Type: Letter

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