Early-onset form of benign childhood epilepsy with centro-temporal EEG foci - A different nosological perspective from Panayiotopoulos syndrome

Neuropediatrics

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 14-19

  Ohtsu, M ^a   Oguni, H ^a   Imai, K ^a   Funatsuka, M ^a   Osawa, M ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autonomic seizures; Early onset BECT; Idiopathic focal epilepsy; Orofacial motor seizures; Panayiotopoulos syndrome; Rolandic EEG foci

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANAYIOTOPOULOS SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SPIKE WAVE;

AGE OF ONSET; BEHAVIORAL SYMPTOMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; EPILEPSY; EPILEPSY, ROLANDIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MALE; PROGNOSIS; SEIZURES; SIALORRHEA; SYNDROME; VOMITING;

EID: 45149105539     PISSN: 0174304X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1077087     Document Type: Article

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