Children with Rolandic spikes and ictal vomiting: Rolandic epilepsy or Panayiotopoulos syndrome?

Epileptic Disorders

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 139-143

  Covanis, Athanasios ^a   Lada, Christina ^b   Skiadas, Konstantinos ^b  

^a AGHIA SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Autonomic status; Ictal vomiting; Ictus emeticus; Panayiotopoulos syndrome; Rolandic epilepsy; Rolandic spikes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; NEUROLOGY; PANAYIOTOPOULOS SYNDROME; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROLANDIC EPILEPSY; SEIZURE; SLEEP; SYMPTOM; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; AGE OF ONSET; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, ROLANDIC; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; PROGNOSIS; SEIZURES; STATUS EPILEPTICUS; SYNDROME; VOMITING;

EID: 0344876577     PISSN: 12949361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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