Infantile Spasms in a Patient with Williams Syndrome and Craniosynostosis

Epilepsia

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1459-1462

  Morimoto, Masafumi ^a   An, Byongmun ^a   Ogami, Aya ^a   Shin, Noriko ^a   Sugino, Yuriko ^a   Sawai, Yasuko ^a   Usuku, Tomohiro ^a   Tanaka, Masayuki ^a   Hirai, Kiyoshi ^a   Nishimura, Akira ^a   Hasegawa, Koh ^a   Sugimoto, Tohru ^a  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH); Hypsarrhythmia; Thyrotropin releasing hormone (TRH); Ventricular hypertrophy

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CORTICOTROPIN; NITRAZEPAM; PROTIRELIN; ZONISAMIDE;

ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME 7Q; CHROMOSOME DELETION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CRANIOFACIAL SYNOSTOSIS; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS THYROID SYSTEM; INFANT; INFANTILE SPASM; MALE; MULTIPLE MALFORMATION SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WILLIAMS BEUREN SYNDROME;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 7; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CRANIOSYNOSTOSES; CRANIOTOMY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; SPASMS, INFANTILE; WILLIAMS SYNDROME;

EID: 10744229708     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1528-1157.2003.34703.x     Document Type: Article

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