Epilepsia partialis continua in progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy: A motor cortex isolation syndrome

Movement Disorders

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1559-1564

  Berciano, José ^a   Leno, Carlos ^a   Figols, Javier ^a   García, Antonio ^a   Polo, José M ^a   Berciano, María T ^b   Ariza, Aurelio ^c  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO MARQUÉS DE VALDECILLA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI GERMANS TRIAS I PUJOL   (Spain)

Author keywords

EPC; Myoclonus; PML

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

APHASIA; APRAXIA; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; AUTOPSY; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEATH; DISEASE COURSE; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; HEMIANOPIA; HUMAN; JC VIRUS; LABORATORY TEST; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE TWITCH; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE MULTIFOCAL LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; QUADRIPLEGIA; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

BIOPSY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY, PROGRESSIVE MULTIFOCAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0347031313     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.10599     Document Type: Article

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