Stroke in the developing brain and intractable epilepsy: Effect of timing on hippocampal sclerosis

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 580-585

  Squier, Waney ^a   Salisbury, Helen ^c   Sisodiya, Sanjay ^b  

^a RADCLIFFE INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BIRTH; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MALE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; ONSET AGE; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SCLEROSIS; SEIZURE; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

EID: 0041825174     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0012162203001075     Document Type: Article

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