Nonlesional frontal lobe epilepsy (FLE) of childhood: Clinical presentation, response to treatment and comorbidity

Epilepsia

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2198-2201

  Prévost, Julie ^a,b   Lortie, Anne ^a   Nguyen, Dang ^c   Lassonde, Maryse ^a   Carmant, Lionel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Behavior; Cognition; Focal epilepsy; Frontal Lobe

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; CLOBAZAM; ETIRACETAM; LAMOTRIGINE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE EPILEPSY; HUMAN; HYPERACTIVITY; IMPULSIVENESS; INFANT; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGE FACTORS; ANTICONVULSANTS; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; EPILEPSY, FRONTAL LOBE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LEARNING DISORDERS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROGNOSIS; QUEBEC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33845616386     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2006.00714.x     Document Type: Review

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