Total callosotomy for a case of lissencephaly presenting with West syndrome and generalized seizures

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1056-1060

  Kamida, T ^a   Maruyama, T ^a   Fujiki, M ^a   Kobayashi, H ^a   Izumi, T ^a   Baba, H ^b  

^a OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION NAGASAKI MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Developmental progression; Lissencephaly; Total callosotomy; West syndrome

Indexed keywords

CLONAZEPAM; PHENOBARBITAL; VALPROIC ACID;

AGYRIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CORPUS CALLOSUM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HYPSARRHYTHMIA; INFANT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCULOGYRIC CRISIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TOTAL CALLOSOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEST SYNDROME;

CORPUS CALLOSUM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PSYCHOSURGERY; SEIZURES; SPASMS, INFANTILE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 31444443605     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-004-1081-5     Document Type: Article

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