Acute infantile encephalopathy predominantly affecting the frontal lobes (AIEF): A novel clinical category and its tentative diagnostic criteria

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 70, Issue SUPPL.1, 2006, Pages 263-268

  Yamanouchi, Hideo ^a   Mizuguchi, Masashi ^b  

^a DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute encephalopathy; Magnetic resonance image; Single photon emission computed tomography; Status epilepticus

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; BRAIN DISEASES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; STATUS EPILEPTICUS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 33750590573     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: 18726844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2005.11.027     Document Type: Article

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