Frontotemporal abnormal gyration with infantile spasms in identical twins

Brain and Development

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 595-599

  Saito, Yoshiaki ^a,b   Yokoyama, Atsushi ^a   Shiraishi, Hideyuki ^a,c   Maegaki, Yoshihiro ^b   Ohno, Kousaku ^b  

^a SHIMANE PREFECTURAL CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c MATSUE RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cortical thickening; Gyration; Pachygyria; Simplified gyral pattern

Indexed keywords

CLOBAZAM; CLONAZEPAM; CORTICOTROPIN; DIAZEPAM; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; PYRIDOXINE; VALPROIC ACID; ZONISAMIDE;

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CASE REPORT; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANTILE SPASM; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NEUROIMAGING; PSYCHOMOTOR RETARDATION; SCHOOL CHILD; WHITE MATTER;

CHILD; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOTOR SKILLS DISORDERS; SPASMS, INFANTILE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 34548236418     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.braindev.2007.03.001     Document Type: Article

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