Epilepsy due to a destructive brain lesion caused by a scorpion sting

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 61, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1294-1296

  Bonilha, Leonardo ^a   Cendes, Fernando ^a   Ghizoni, Enrico ^a   Vieira, Ronan José ^a   Li, Li Min ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SCORPION VENOM; TITYUS TOXIN;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FEMALE; HEMIPARESIS; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; INSECT STING; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORPION;

ANIMALS; ARACHNIDISM; BRAIN; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; SCORPION VENOMS; SCORPIONS;

EID: 4043134604     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.61.8.1294     Document Type: Article

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