Partial seizures triggering infantile spasms in the presence of a basal ganglia glioma

Epileptic Disorders

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 378-382

  RamachandranNair, Rajesh ^a   Ochi, Ayako ^a   Akiyama, Tomoyuki ^a   Buckley, David J ^b   Soman, Teesta B ^a   Weiss, Shelly K ^a   Otsubo, Hiroshi ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b Laneway Children's Health and Rehabilitation Centre   (Canada)

Author keywords

Basal ganglia glioma; Infantile spasms; Partial seizures; Tumor

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; OXCARBAZEPINE; PHENOBARBITAL; TOPIRAMATE;

ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN TUMOR; CASE REPORT; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; INFANTILE SPASM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS;

ANTICONVULSANTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; ASTROCYTOMA; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORPUS STRIATUM; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HUMANS; INFANT; PARESIS; SPASMS, INFANTILE; SUPRATENTORIAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 30344450804     PISSN: 12949361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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