Cryptogenic localization related epilepsy in children from a tertiary outpatient clinic: Is neurological and neuropsychological outcome predictable?

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 109, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 422-430

  Reijs, Rianne P ^a   van Mil, Saskia G M ^a   Arends, Johan B A M ^a   van Hall, Mariette H J A ^a   Weber, Jacobiene W ^b   Renier, Willy O ^c   Aldenkamp, Albert P ^a,b  

^a EPILEPSY CENTER KEMPENHAEGHE   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Academic delay; Childhood epilepsy; Localization related epilepsy; Motor delay; Neurological outcome; Neuropsychological outcome; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRYPTOGENIC LOCALIZATION RELATED EPILEPSY; DISEASE COURSE; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTCOME VARIABLE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOMOTOR ACTIVITY; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT DURATION;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; EPILEPSY; EPILEPSY, COMPLEX PARTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; NETHERLANDS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDERS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 34247526432     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2007.03.004     Document Type: Article

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