Malignant refractory epilepsy in identical twins mosaic for a supernumerary ring chromosome 19

Epilepsia

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 997-1000

  Shahwan, Amre ^a   Green, Andrew J ^b   Carey, Aiveen ^b   Stallings, Raymond L ^b   O'Flaherty, Odette C ^a   King, Mary D ^a  

^a CHILDREN S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b OUR LADY S CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Ring chromosome 19; Tonic seizures

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; AMANTADINE; BENZODIAZEPINE; BETAMETHASONE; BROMIDE; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLOBAZAM; ETHOSUXIMIDE; FELBAMATE; GABAPENTIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; LAMOTRIGINE; LORAZEPAM; NITRAZEPAM; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; PRIMIDONE; PYRIDOXINE; STIRIPENTOL; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID; VIGABATRIN;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME 19; CHROMOSOME MOSAICISM; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; KARYOTYPE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERNUMERARY CHROMOSOME; TERATOLOGY; TONIC SEIZURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TWINS;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 19; DISEASES IN TWINS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; KARYOTYPING; MOSAICISM; RING CHROMOSOMES; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 4043126851     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0013-9580.2004.00304.x     Document Type: Article

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