Aicardi syndrome associated with anterior cephalocele in a female infant

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 464-466

  Melbourne Chambers, R ^a   Singh Minott, I ^a   Mowatt, L ^a   Johnson, P ^a   Thame, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLONAZEPAM; PHENOBARBITAL; STEROID; VIGABATRIN;

AICARDI SYNDROME; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BRAIN LATERAL VENTRICLE; BRAIN MALFORMATION; BRAIN THIRD VENTRICLE; CASE REPORT; CEPHALOCELE; CHORIORETINOPATHY; CORPUS CALLOSUM AGENESIS; DIVERGENT STRABISMUS; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; FATALITY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANTILE SPASM; MICROCEPHALY; NOSE SECRETION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DISEASE; SCHIZENCEPHALY; SEIZURE; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; CHOROID; CORPUS CALLOSUM; ENCEPHALOCELE; ETHMOID SINUS; EXOTROPIA; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RETINA; SPASMS, INFANTILE; SYNDROME;

EID: 34249821369     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2007.00464.x     Document Type: Article

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