Temporal lobe epilepsy in children: Overview of clinical semiology

Epileptic Disorders

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 299-307

  Ray, Amit ^a   Kotagal, Prakash ^b  

^a FORTIS HOSPITAL   (India)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatisms; Childhood temporal lobe epilepsy; Epilepsy surgery; Hypomotor; Semiology; Temporal lobectomy

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATISM; BRAIN MALFORMATION; BRAIN TUMOR; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; EPILEPSY; HUMAN; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEIZURE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; AGE OF ONSET; ASTROCYTOMA; AUTOMATISM; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, COMPLEX PARTIAL; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; EPILEPSY, TONIC-CLONIC; FEMALE; GANGLIOGLIOMA; HALLUCINATIONS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PHENOTYPE; SCLEROSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 30344448858     PISSN: 12949361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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