The Clinical Spectrum of Epilepsy in Children and Adults with Hypothalamic Hamartoma

Epilepsia

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1310-1319

  Mullatti, Nandini ^a   Selway, Richard ^a   Nashef, Lina ^a   Elwes, Robert ^a   Honavar, Mrinalini ^a   Chandler, Christopher ^a   Morris, Robin ^a   Jarosz, Josef ^a   Buchanan, Charles ^a   Polkey, Charles ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gelastic seizures; Hypothalamus hamartoma; Precocious puberty; Stereotactic thermocoagulation

Indexed keywords

ABSENCE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DROP ATTACK; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GELASTIC SEIZURE; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HAMARTOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTHALAMUS HAMARTOMA; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; THERMOCOAGULATION; TONIC SEIZURE; VIDEORECORDING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HAMARTOMA; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0142104302     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1528-1157.2003.04103.x     Document Type: Article

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