Late-onset, "Gastaut type", childhood occipital epilepsy: An unusual evolution

Epileptic Disorders

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 341-346

  Caraballo, Roberto Horacio ^a   Cersósimo, Ricardo Oscar ^a   Fejerman, Natalio ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE PEDIATRÍA PROF DR JUAN P GARRAHAN   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Gastaut type occiptal epilepsy; Idiopathic; Occipital seizures; Secondary bilateral synchrony; Typical absences

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; EYELID CLOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; LENNOX GASTAUT SYNDROME; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; SPIKE WAVE;

AGE OF ONSET; ANTICONVULSANTS; CHILD; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; FEMALE; HALLUCINATIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS; SEIZURES, FEBRILE; SLEEP DISORDERS, INTRINSIC;

EID: 30344472684     PISSN: 12949361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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