Long-term prognosis of epilepsies and related seizure disorders in Fukuyama-type congenital muscular dystrophy

Journal of Child Neurology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 385-391

  Yoshioka, Mieko ^a   Higuchi, Yoshihisa ^b  

^a Kobe City Pediatric and General Rehabilitation Center for the Challenged   (Japan)

^b UTANO NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRONTAL LOBE EPILEPSY; FUKUYAMA CONGENITAL MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HUMAN; LENNOX GASTAUT SYNDROME; MALE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SEIZURE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

EID: 20044367825     PISSN: 08830738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/08830738050200041901     Document Type: Article

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