Landau Kleffner Syndrome: Electroclinical and etiopathogenic heterogeneity

Neurology India

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 417-423

  Singh, M B ^a   Kalita, J ^a   Misra, U K ^a  

^a SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Aphasia; Landau Kleffner syndrome; Spike and wave

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLOBAZAM; CORTICOSTEROID DERIVATIVE; CORTICOTROPIN; DIAZEPAM; ETHOSUXIMIDE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; STEROID; VALPROIC ACID; VIGABATRIN;

AGE; APHASIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DETERIORATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG CHOICE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG TOXICITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN; LANDAU KLEFFNER SYNDROME; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LONG TERM CARE; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; MONOTHERAPY; NEUROSURGERY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; RELAPSE; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SLEEP DISORDER; SPIKE WAVE;

ANTICONVULSANTS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; INCIDENCE; LANDAU-KLEFFNER SYNDROME; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 0037005155     PISSN: 00283886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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