Valproate-associated reversible encephalopathy in a 3-year-old girl with Pallister-Killian syndrome

Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 645-647

  Gerstner, Thorsten ^a   Bell, Nellie ^a   Koenig, Stephan A ^a  

^a University Children's Hospitals   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ammonia; EEG; Encephalopathy; Pallister killian; Valproate

Indexed keywords

OXCARBAZEPINE; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID;

ADD ON THERAPY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGENITAL DIAPHRAGM HERNIA; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FACIES; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; LIVER TOXICITY; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; PALLISTER KILLIAN SYNDROME; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SIDE EFFECT; THROMBOCYTE;

EID: 47849087615     PISSN: 11766336     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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