Benign partial epilepsy in infancy: Myth or reality?

Epilepsia

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1043-1049

  Kaleyias, Joseph ^a   Khurana, Divya S ^a   Valencia, Ignacio ^a   Legido, Agustin ^a   Kothare, Sanjeev V ^a  

^a ST CHRISTOPHER'S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

Author keywords

Benign; Infancy; Partial epilepsy

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; ETIRACETAM; LAMOTRIGINE; OXCARBAZEPINE; PHENOBARBITAL; TOPIRAMATE;

APNEA; ARTICLE; BENIGN PARTIAL EPILEPSY IN INFANCY; CLONIC SEIZURE; CYANOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PALLOR; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE; TREATMENT DURATION; UNITED STATES; WAKEFULNESS;

AGE FACTORS; AGE OF ONSET; ANTICONVULSANTS; BEHAVIORAL SYMPTOMS; BRAIN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; FAMILY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TERMINOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33744471402     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2006.00520.x     Document Type: Article

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