The not so benign idiopathic focal epilepsies of childhood: A second look on the benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (BECTS)

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria

Volumn 61, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2003, Pages 59-64

  De Paola, Luciano ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; PHENOBARBITAL; SULTIAME;

ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHROMOSOME 15Q; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REVIEW; SEIZURE;

EID: 1642512359     PISSN: 0004282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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