Aromatic L-amino acid decarboxylase deficiency associated with epilepsy mimicking non-epileptic involuntary movements

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 876-878

  Ito, Susumu ^a   Nakayama, Tomohiro ^a   Ide, Shuhei ^b   Ito, Yasushi ^a   Oguni, Hirokazu ^a   Goto, Yu Ichi ^b   Osawa, Makiko ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NCNP

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; AROMATIC LEVO AMINO ACID DECARBOXYLASE; BROMOCRIPTINE; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLOBAZAM; CLONAZEPAM; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; PYRIDOXINE; VALPROIC ACID;

APHAGIA; AROMATIC LEVO AMINO ACID DECARBOXYLASE DEFICIENCY; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CASE REPORT; CHOREA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSTIPATION; DIAPHORESIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESPONSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; EPILEPSY; EYE DISEASE; FEEDING DISORDER; HUMAN; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; HYPERREFLEXIA; HYPERSALIVATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMITTENT POSITIVE PRESSURE VENTILATION; MALE; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; MUSCLE SPASM; MYOCLONUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SCHOOL CHILD; SLEEP DISORDER; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TONIC SEIZURE; TREATMENT DURATION; TUBE FEEDING; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANTICONVULSANTS; AROMATIC-L-AMINO-ACID DECARBOXYLASES; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DYSKINESIAS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; MALE; SEIZURES;

EID: 54249087973     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2008.03094.x     Document Type: Article

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