The treatment of patients with hypothalamic hamartomas, epilepsy and behavioural abnormalities: Facts and hypotheses

Epileptic Disorders

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 249-255

  Palmini, André ^a   Paglioli Neto, Eliseu ^a   Montes, Jose ^b   Farmer, Jean Paul ^b  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b MONTREAL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Behavioural abnormalities; Epilepsy; Gelastic seizures; Hypothalamic hamartoma; Surgical strategies; Surgical treatment

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ATYPICAL ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLOBAZAM; CLONAZEPAM; LAMOTRIGINE; LITHIUM; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; NITRAZEPAM; OXCARBAZEPINE; PHENYTOIN; TOPIRAMATE; TRAZODONE; VALPROIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPILEPSY; GELASTIC SEIZURE; HAMARTOMA; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HAMARTOMA; HYPOTHALAMUS TUMOR; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTICONVULSANTS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HAMARTOMA; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMIC DISEASES; HYPOTHALAMUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS;

EID: 1142286544     PISSN: 12949361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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