A detailed analysis of symptomatic posterior cortex seizure semiology in children younger than seven years

Epilepsia

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 89-96

  Fogarasi, András ^a,b   Boesebeck, Frank ^a   Tuxhorn, Ingrid ^a  

^a EPILEPSY CENTER BETHEL   (Germany)

^b Bethesda Children's Hospital   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Age; Children; Occipital lobe epilepsy; Parietal lobe epilepsy; Posterior cortex; Seizure semiology

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; LAMOTRIGINE; LEVODOPA; OXCARBAZEPINE; PHENOBARBITAL; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID;

ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATISM; BEHAVIOR; BLINKING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC AURA; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; FEMALE; FLUSHING; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MYOCLONUS SEIZURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NYSTAGMUS; OCCIPITAL LOBE EPILEPSY; ONSET AGE; PARIETAL EPILEPSY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTERIOR CORTEX EPILEPSY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOMOTOR RETARDATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TONIC SEIZURE; VIDEORECORDING; VOCALIZATION;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TEMPORAL LOBE; TERMINOLOGY; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 0038003781     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1528-1157.2003.18302.x     Document Type: Article

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