Clinical and electrographic features of epileptic spasms persisting beyond the second year of life

Epilepsia

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 623-630

  De Menezes, Márcio A  Sotero ^a   Rho, Jong M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Childhood; Epilepsy; Epileptic spasms; Infantile spasms; Juvenile spasms; Periodic spasms; Serial spasms

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; CORTICOTROPIN; LAMOTRIGINE; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID; VIGABATRIN;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; HYPSARRHYTHMIA; INFANTILE SPASM; KETOGENIC DIET; MALE; MYOCLONUS SEIZURE; PERINATAL ASPHYXIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TONIC SEIZURE; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

AGE OF ONSET; BRAIN; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES; SPASMS, INFANTILE; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 0036286390     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1528-1157.2002.28401.x     Document Type: Article

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