Coexisting muscular dystrophies and epilepsy in children

Journal of Child Neurology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 148-150

  Tsao, Chang Yong ^a,b   Mendell, J R ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALPAIN; CREATINE KINASE MM; DYSTROPHIN; ETHOSUXIMIDE; LAMININ ALPHA2; MEROSIN; VALPROIC ACID;

ABSENCE; ARTICLE; BRAIN MALFORMATION; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; COMORBIDITY; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FOLLOW UP; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; GENE DELETION; HUMAN; LEARNING DISORDER; LIMB GIRDLE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; MALE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCLE HYPERTROPHY; MUSCLE REGENERATION; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH THERAPY; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BRAIN; CALPAIN; CHILD; CHROMOSOME DELETION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DYSTROPHIN; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; EPILEPSY, TONIC-CLONIC; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES, LIMB-GIRDLE; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, DUCHENNE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION;

EID: 33646846248     PISSN: 08830738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/08830738060210021601     Document Type: Article

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