Epilepsy in vacuolating megalencephalic leukoencephalopathy with subcortical cysts

Seizure

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 388-396

  Yalçinkaya, Cengiz ^a   Yüksel, Adnan ^b   Çomu, Sinan ^c   Kiliç, Gülhatun ^a   Çokar, Özlem ^a   Dervent, Ayşin ^a  

^a Division of Child Neurology   (Turkey)

^b ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c Peadiatric Neurology   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cysts; EEG; Epilepsy; Leukoencephalopathy; Megalencephaly; White matter

Indexed keywords

VALPROIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BRAIN CYST; CEREBELLUM DISEASE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; EYELID CLOSURE; FACILITATION; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FRONTAL LOBE; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HUMAN; HYPERVENTILATION; INTELLIGENCE; LEUKODYSTROPHY; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; MACROCEPHALY; MALE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PARIETAL LOBE; PATHOGENESIS; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL SIGN; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SPIKE WAVE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

EID: 0041854540     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1059-1311(02)00350-3     Document Type: Article

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