Focal polymicrogyria in mother and son

Brain and Development

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 336-339

  Caraballo, Roberto Horacio ^a   Oscar Cersósimo, Ricardo ^a   Mazza, Edgardo ^a   Fejerman, Natalio ^a  

^a Department of Neurology   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Cerebral migrational and organizational disorder; Congenital hemiparesis; Epilepsy; Familial focal polymicrogyria; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; DYSPLASIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; MALE; MICROGYRIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE;

ADULT; ATROPHY; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GENES, DOMINANT; HUMANS; KARYOTYPING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PARESIS; PARIETAL LOBE; SEIZURES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0342656637     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0387-7604(00)00125-X     Document Type: Article

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