Generalized convulsions with diffuse spike and wave bursts emerging with Graves' disease

Neuropediatrics

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 305-307

  Maeda, Tomoki ^a   Izumi, T ^a  

^a OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Graves' disease; Hyperventilation; Idiopathic generalized epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; THIAMAZOLE; THYROID HORMONE;

ADOLESCENT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERVENTILATION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE THRESHOLD; SLEEP; SPIKE WAVE; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

ADOLESCENT; ANTITHYROID AGENTS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMANS; METHIMAZOLE; SEIZURES;

EID: 33846613251     PISSN: 0174304X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-955966     Document Type: Article

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