Hypothalamic hamartoma

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 221-231

  Arita, Kazunori ^a   Kurisu, Kaoru ^a   Kiura, Yoshihiro ^a   Iida, Koji ^b   Otsubo, Hiroshi ^b  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Classification; Epilepsy; Gelastic seizure; Hypothalamic hamartoma; Precocious puberty

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; GONADORELIN AGONIST;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; COGNITIVE DEFECT; HAMARTOMA; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMIC HAMARTOMA; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS TUMOR; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PALLISTER HALL SYNDROME; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SIDE EFFECT; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION;

HAMARTOMA; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMIC DISEASES;

EID: 20444365196     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.45.221     Document Type: Article

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