Late-onset isolated gelastic epilepsy secondary to entrapment of the right temporal horn

Neurologia

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 204-207

  Coria, F ^a,b   Bahillo Marcos E ^a   Moral Blanco, M ^a   Garcia Gutierrez P ^a   Ortiz Saenz De Santa Maria R ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO RÍO HORTEGA   (Spain)

^b NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Focal obstructive hydrocephalus; Gelastic seizures; Laughing; Trapped temporal horn

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; NERVE COMPRESSION; SEIZURE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 17144458006     PISSN: 02134853     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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