Serial MEG change in a boy with Landau-Kleffner syndrome

No To Hattatsu

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 395-400

  Kamimura, Takanori ^a,b   Kanazawa, Osamu ^a   Tohyama, Jun ^a   Akasaka, Noriyuki ^a   Uchiyama, Makoto ^b  

^a NISHI NIIGATA CHUO NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CLONAZEPAM; CORTICOSTEROID; VALPROIC ACID;

AGNOSIA; APHASIA; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIPOLE; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; HUMAN; LANDAU KLEFFNER SYNDROME; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; SCALP; SPIKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTICONVULSANTS; CHILD; CLONAZEPAM; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; HUMANS; LANDAU-KLEFFNER SYNDROME; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREDNISOLONE; PULSE THERAPY, DRUG; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALPROIC ACID;

EID: 4544263673     PISSN: 00290831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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