Diagnostic issues and treatment of cryptogenic or symptomatic generalized epilepsies

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 70, Issue SUPPL.1, 2006, Pages 132-140

  Ohtsuka, Yoko ^a   Yoshinaga, Harumi ^a   Kobayashi, Katsuhiro ^a   Ogino, Tatsuya ^a   Oka, Makio ^a   Ito, Minako ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Epilepsy with myoclonic astatic seizures; Epileptic spasms; Lennox Gastaut syndrome; Prognosis; Treatment.; West syndrome

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CORTICOTROPIN; HORMONE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANTILE SPASM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGNOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANTICONVULSANTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; HORMONES; HUMANS; INFANT; PROGNOSIS; SPASMS, INFANTILE;

EID: 33750591513     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: 18726844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2005.11.024     Document Type: Article

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