Electrical status epilepticus "invisible" to surface EEG in late-onset Rasmussen encephalitis

Epileptic Disorders

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 219-222

  Fattouch, Jinane ^a   Di Bonaventura, Carlo ^a   Di Gennaro, Giancarlo ^b   Quarato, Pier Paolo ^b   Petrucci, Simona ^a   Manfredi, Mario ^a,b   Prencipe, Massimilano ^a   Esposito, Vincenzo ^b   Giallonardo, Anna Teresa ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Late onset Rasmussen encephalitis; Status epilepticus; Subdural electrodes

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID; STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPHYXIA; AUTOMATISM; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CHEST TIGHTNESS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; DISTRESS SYNDROME; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOTHERAPY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASMUSSEN SYNDROME; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SEIZURE; SHIVERING; SMELLING DISORDER; SPIKE WAVE; THETA RHYTHM;

ADULT; BRAIN; ELECTRODES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; STATUS EPILEPTICUS;

EID: 53349128696     PISSN: 12949361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1684/epd.2008.0200     Document Type: Article

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