Benign focal epilepsy with onset in infancy in a patient with 18q-syndrome

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 362-365

  Verrotti, Alberto ^a   Trotta, Daniela ^a   Salladini, Carmela ^a   di Corcia, Giovanna ^a   Chiarelli, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

Author keywords

18q syndrome; EEG; Epilepsy; Infancy; Myelin basic protein

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME 18Q; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CYTOGENETICS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FRONTAL CORTEX; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT DISEASE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RARE DISEASE; SPIKE WAVE;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 18; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SYNDROME;

EID: 2942724715     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-003-0847-5     Document Type: Article

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