Difficulties in differentiation of Parry-Romberg syndrome, unilateral facial sclerodermia, and Rasmussen syndrome

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 409-415

  Paprocka, Justyna ^a   Jamroz, Ewa ^a   Adamek, Dariusz ^b   Marszal, Elzbieta ^a   Mandera, Marek ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Progressive facial hemiatrophy; Rasmussen encephalitis; Scleroderma en coup de sabre

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; STEROID;

ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CASE REPORT; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HEMIFACIAL ATROPHY; HEMIPARESIS; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; MIGRAINE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RASMUSSEN SYNDROME; SCHOOL CHILD; SCLERODERMA;

CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENCEPHALITIS; FACIAL ASYMMETRY; FACIAL HEMIATROPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; SCLERODERMA, LOCALIZED; SEIZURES;

EID: 33645308784     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-005-1262-x     Document Type: Article

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