Perioral myoclonia with absences: An overlooked and misdiagnosed generalized seizure type

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 460-462

  Baykan, Betül ^a   Noachtar, Soheyl ^b  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Absence seizure; Absence status epilepticus; EEG; Perioral myoclonia

Indexed keywords

VALPROIC ACID;

ABSENCE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC STATE; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MULTICHANNEL RECORDER; MYOCLONUS; TENDON REFLEX; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; VIDEORECORDING;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, MYOCLONIC; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RETARDATION; SEIZURES; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 16344377568     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2005.02.007     Document Type: Article

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