Predictive clinical factors for the differential diagnosis of childhood extratemporal seizures

Epilepsia

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1280-1285

  Fogarasi, Andras ^a,b   Tuxhorn, Ingrid ^a   Hegyi, Marta ^b   Janszky, József ^a,c  

^a EPILEPSY CENTER BETHEL   (Germany)

^b Bethesda Children's Hospital   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Children; Frontal lobe epilepsy; Occipital lobe epilepsy; Presurgical evaluation; Seizure semiology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATISM; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE EPILEPSY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NYSTAGMUS; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TONIC SEIZURE; AGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS;

AGE FACTORS; AGE OF ONSET; AUTOMATISM; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; EPILEPSY, FRONTAL LOBE; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 23944457403     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2005.06105.x     Document Type: Article

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