Epileptic encephalopathy with continuous spikes and waves during sleep in children with shunted hydrocephalus: A study of nine cases

Epilepsia

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1520-1527

  Caraballo, Roberto Horacio ^a   Bongiorni, Lucas ^a   Cersósimo, Ricardo ^a   Semprino, Marcos ^b   Espeche, Alberto ^c   Fejerman, Natalio ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE PEDIATRÍA PROF DR JUAN P GARRAHAN   (Argentina)

^b Hospital Provincial de Neuquén   (Argentina)

^c Servicio de Anatomía Patológica Hospital de Pediatría   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Continuous spike and wave during slow sleep; Epileptic encephalopathy; Focal epilepsy; Hydrocephalus; Secondary bilateral synchrony; Ventriculoperitoneal shunt

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; AGGRESSIVENESS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISORIENTATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYPERKINESIA; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; MYOCLONUS; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; SLEEP; SLOW BRAIN WAVE; SOCIALIZATION; SPIKE; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

ADOLESCENT; ANTICONVULSANTS; CHILD; COGNITION DISORDERS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS DISORDERS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDERS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SLEEP STAGES; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME PERCEPTION; VENTRICULOPERITONEAL SHUNT;

EID: 51249101274     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2008.01608.x     Document Type: Article

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