Etiologic factors and clinical features of symptomatic epilepsy: Focus on pediatric cases

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Fujiwara, Tateki ^a   Shigematsu, Hideo ^a  

^a SHIZUOKA INSTITUTE OF EPILEPSY AND NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Epileptic syndrome; Etiologic factors; Severe myoclonic epilepsy in infancy; Symptomatic epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; BRAIN INFECTION; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN MALFORMATION; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FRONTAL LOBE EPILEPSY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PERINATAL DEVELOPMENT; PERINATAL MORBIDITY; RISK FACTOR; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYNDROME DELINEATION; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ADOLESCENT; ANTICONVULSANTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG RESISTANCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MYOCLONIC EPILEPSY, JUVENILE;

EID: 3042825067     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1819.2004.01244_3.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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