Late-onset childhood occipital epilepsy (Gastaut type): A family study

European Journal of Paediatric Neurology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 421-426

  Grosso, Salvatore ^a   Vivarelli, Rossella ^a   Gobbi, Giuseppe ^b   Bartolo, Rosanna Di ^a   Berardi, Rosario ^a   Balestri, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b MAGGIORE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Occipital lobe epilepsy; Partial seizures

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; EEG ABNORMALITY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; LATE ONSET CHILDHOOD OCCIPITAL EPILEPSY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RARE DISEASE; VISUAL HALLUCINATION;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; AGE OF ONSET; CHILD; CHROMOSOME DISORDERS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; GENES, DOMINANT; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC SCREENING; HALLUCINATIONS; HUMANS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; MALE; PEDIGREE; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 48649096837     PISSN: 10903798     EISSN: 15322130     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpn.2007.11.007     Document Type: Article

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