Childhood occipital epilepsy of Gastaut: A study of 33 patients

Epilepsia

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 288-297

  Caraballo, Roberto Horacio ^a   Cersósimo, Ricardo Oscar ^a   Fejerman, Natalio ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE PEDIATRÍA PROF DR JUAN P GARRAHAN   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Focal idiopathic epilepsy; Migraine like symptoms; Occipital seizures; Occipital spikes; Visual seizures

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLOBAZAM; VALPROIC ACID;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; CHILD; CHILDHOOD OCCIPITAL EPILEPSY OF GASTAUT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; ICTAL DEVIATION; MALE; MIGRAINE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PANAYIOTOPOULOS SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SEIZURE; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SPIKE WAVE; VISUAL SEIZURE;

ADOLESCENT; AGE OF ONSET; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; EPILEPSY, ROLANDIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SLEEP; SYNDROME; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 38649118561     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2007.01322.x     Document Type: Article

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