Aicardi syndrome: Spectrum of disease and long-term prognosis in 77 females

Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 343-346

  Rosser, Tena L ^a   Acosta, Maria T ^a   Packer, Roger J ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLOBAZAM; CLONAZEPAM; CLORAZEPATE; CORTICOTROPIN; FELBAMATE; GABAPENTIN; LAMOTRIGINE; NITRAZEPAM; OXCARBAZEPINE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; TIAGABINE; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID; VIGABATRIN; ZONISAMIDE;

ABSENCE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AICARDI SYNDROME; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; ATONIC SEIZURE; CHILD; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GASTROINTESTINAL REFLUX; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HUMAN; IMPLANT; INFANTILE SPASM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYOCLONUS SEIZURE; OTITIS MEDIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCOLIOSIS; SEIZURE; SELF REPORT; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TONIC SEIZURE; VAGUS NERVE; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTICONVULSANTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOROID DISEASES; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENES, DOMINANT; GENETIC DISEASES, X-LINKED; HUMANS; INFANT; PROGNOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETINAL DISEASES; SEIZURES; SPASMS, INFANTILE; SYNDROME;

EID: 0036869041     PISSN: 08878994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0887-8994(02)00450-2     Document Type: Article

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