Infantile Spasms in Remission May Reemerge as Intractable Epileptic Spasms

Epilepsia

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1592-1595

  Camfield, Peter ^a,d   Camfield, Carol ^a   Lortie, Anne ^b   Darwish, Husam ^c  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^d IWK HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Infantile spasms; Remission; West syndrome

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLOBAZAM; CLONAZEPAM; CORTICOSTEROID; CORTICOTROPIN; FELBAMATE; LAMOTRIGINE; NITRAZEPAM; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID; VIGABATRIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN SURGERY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; FOCAL CORTICAL RESECTION; FOLLOW UP; GRAND MAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; HYPSARRHYTHMIA; INCONTINENCE; INFANT; INFANT DISEASE; INFANTILE SPASM; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; KETOGENIC DIET; MUSCLE SPASM; ONSET AGE; POSTICTAL CONFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REMISSION; SEIZURE; SOCIAL DISABILITY; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SPIKE; SYNDROME DELINEATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; WEST SYNDROME;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; ANTICONVULSANTS; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG RESISTANCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, COMPLEX PARTIAL; EPILEPSY, TONIC-CLONIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; RECURRENCE; SPASMS, INFANTILE;

EID: 0347994965     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0013-9580.2003.29203.x     Document Type: Article

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