Visual evoked potentials in children with occipital epilepsies

Brain and Development

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 268-271

  Gokcay, Ahmet ^a   Celebisoy, Neşe ^a   Gokcay, Figen ^a   Ekmekci, Özgül ^a   Ulku, Ayfer ^a  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Childhood epilepsy with occipital paroxysms; Symptomatic occipital epilepsy; Visual evoked potentials

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; CHILD; CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY WITH OCCIPITAL PAROXYSM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; EXCITABILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERACTIVITY; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; MALE; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; OCCIPITAL LOBE; RECORDING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPTOMATIC EPILEPSY;

EID: 0037614710     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0387-7604(02)00226-7     Document Type: Article

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