Panayiotopoulos syndrome: A benign childhood autonomic epilepsy frequently imitating encephalitis, syncope, migraine, sleep disorder, or gastroenteritis

Pediatrics

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Covanis, Athanasios ^a  

^a AGHIA SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Panayiotopoulos syndrome; PS

Indexed keywords

BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENCEPHALITIS; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMAN; HYPERSALIVATION; INCIDENCE; INTESTINE MOTILITY; MIGRAINE; MYDRIASIS; PALLOR; PANAYIOTOPOULOS SYNDROME; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SLEEP DISORDER; SYNCOPE; VOMITING; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; INFANT; MALE; NEWBORN; ONSET AGE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGNOSIS; ROLANDIC EPILEPSY; SYNDROME;

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; AGE OF ONSET; ANTICONVULSANTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALITIS; EPILEPSY, ROLANDIC; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; PROGNOSIS; SLEEP DISORDERS; SYNCOPE; SYNDROME; VOMITING;

EID: 33750109627     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 02105721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2006-0623     Document Type: Review

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