Refractory photosensitive epilepsy associated with a complex rearrangement of chromosome 2

Neuropediatrics

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 320-323

  Van Esch, H ^a   Syrrouz, M ^a   Lagae, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Chromosome 2; Photosensitive Epilepsy; Reflex Epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CLOBAZAM; CLONAZEPAM; ETIRACETAM; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; PREDNISONE; SULTIAME; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID; VIGABATRIN;

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME 2; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FAMILY HISTORY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MAPPING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KARYOTYPING; KETOGENIC DIET; LIGHT EXPOSURE; LIPOFUSCINOSIS; MALE; MYOCLONUS SEIZURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSENSITIVE EPILEPSY; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BIOPSY; TREATMENT FAILURE; YEAST ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME;

BETA RHYTHM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 2; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, MYOCLONIC; EPILEPSY, REFLEX; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KARYOTYPING; MALE; MENTAL RETARDATION;

EID: 0036994675     PISSN: 0174304X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2002-37088     Document Type: Article

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