Gelastic seizures: Not always hypothalamic hamartoma

Epileptic Disorders

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 453-458

  Cheung, Christina S ^a   Parrent, Andrew G ^a   Burneo, Jorge G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cortical dysplasia; Frontal lobe seizures; Gelastic seizures; Hypothalamic hamartoma

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; CLOBAZAM;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; GELASTIC SEIZURE; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HAMARTOMA; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HAMARTOMA; NOTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERTUSSIS; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTLESSNESS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; VACCINATION;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; EPILEPSY, FRONTAL LOBE; FEMALE; HAMARTOMA; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMIC DISEASES; LAUGHTER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 38349125915     PISSN: 12949361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1684/epd.2007.0139     Document Type: Note

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