Ictal asystole with convulsive syncope mimicking secondary generalisation: A depth electrode study

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 885-887

  Rossetti, A O ^a   Dworetzky, B A ^a   Madsen, J R ^b   Golub, O ^a   Beckman, J A ^b   Bromfield, E B ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; ASYSTOLE; BRADYCARDIA; BRAIN PERFUSION; CASE REPORT; CEREBRAL HYPOPERFUSION; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONVULSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HEART PACING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; ICTAL ASYSTOLE; ICTAL BRADYCARDIA; MYOCLONUS; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; POSTTRAUMATIC SEIZURE DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RARE DISEASE; SEIZURE; SPIKE; SUDDEN DEATH; SYNCOPE;

AMYGDALA; BRAIN INJURIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ARREST; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; SYNCOPE;

EID: 20444405049     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2004.051839     Document Type: Article

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