Surgical treatment of two patients with infantile spasms in early infancy

Brain and Development

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 453-457

  Kang, Hoon Chul ^a   Jung, Da Eun ^a   Kim, Kae Min ^a   Hwang, Yong Soon ^a   Park, Sang Keun ^a   Ko, Tae Sung ^b  

^a Inje University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Early infancy; Infantile spasms; Surgical treatment

Indexed keywords

PYRIDOXINE; TOPIRAMATE; VIGABATRIN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD VOLUME; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CATCH UP GROWTH; CONCEPTION; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY SURGERY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; INFANCY; INFANT; INFANTILE SPASM; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; LESIONECTOMY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; SPASMS, INFANTILE;

EID: 33745437369     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.braindev.2005.11.011     Document Type: Article

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