Landau-Kleffher syndrome and temporal cortical volume reduction: Cause or effect?

Neurology

Volumn 63, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1152-1153

  Bourgeois, Blaise F D ^a,c   Landau, William M ^b  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UCB PHARMA   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; STEROID;

APHASIA; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; LANDAU KLEFFNER SYNDROME; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; ATROPHY; CHILD; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ATROPHY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; LANDAU-KLEFFNER SYNDROME; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 5344262449     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.WNL.0000143267.68149.C2     Document Type: Editorial

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