Co-occurrence of infantile epileptic seizures and childhood paroxysmal choreoathetosis in one family: Clinical, EEG, and SPECT characterization of episodic events

Movement Disorders

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 98-104

  Thiriaux, Anne ^a   de St Martin, Anne ^a   Vercueil, Laurent ^a,b   Battaglia, Fabrice ^a   Armspach, Jean Paul ^c   Hirsch, Edouard ^a   Marescaux, Christian ^a,b   Namer, Izzie J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF STRASBOURG   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

Benign infantile familial convulsions; Epilepsy; Paroxysmal dyskinesia; SPECT

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE; CARBAMAZEPINE; VALPROIC ACID;

ADULT; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; BRAIN MATURATION; BRAIN PERFUSION; CENTROMERE; CHILD; CHOREOATHETOSIS; CHROMOSOME 16P; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE DURATION; DYSKINESIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FAMILY STUDY; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HUMAN; INFANT; INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; REVIEW; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPIKE WAVE;

EID: 0036460969     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.1195     Document Type: Review

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