Epilepsy syndromes associated with hypothalamic hamartomas

Seizure

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 50-58

  Castro, Luiz H ^a   Ferreira, Luiz K ^a   Teles, Leandro R ^a   Jorge, Carmen L ^a   Arantes, Paula R ^a   Ono, Carla R ^a   Adda, Carla C ^a   Valerio, Rosa F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cognition; Epilepsy; Hypothalamic hamartoma; MRI; SPECT; Video EEG

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITION; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FEMALE; GELASTIC SEIZURE; HAMARTOMA; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS TUMOR; MALE; MENTAL DETERIORATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TONIC SEIZURE; VIDEORECORDING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COGNITION DISORDERS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; EPILEPSY, TONIC-CLONIC; FEMALE; HAMARTOMA; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMIC DISEASES; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 33845484397     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2006.10.008     Document Type: Article

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