Multiple independent spike foci and epilepsy, with special reference to a new epileptic syndrome of"severe epilepsy with multiple independent spike foci"

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 70, Issue SUPPL.1, 2006, Pages 96-104

  Yamatogi, Yasuko ^a   Ohtahara, Shunsuke ^b  

^a OKAYAMA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Generalized minor seizures; Lennox Gastaut syndrome; Markand Blume Ohtahara syndrome; Multiple independent spike foci; Severe catastrophic epilepsy; Symptomatic generalized epilepsy

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; CHILD; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HUMAN; INFANT; ONSET AGE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGNOSIS; SEIZURE;

AGE OF ONSET; AGING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; HUMANS; INFANT; PROGNOSIS; SEIZURES;

EID: 33750593341     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: 18726844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2006.01.013     Document Type: Article

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