Vitamin B12 deficiency, seizure, involuntary movements

Seizure

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 748-749

  Yavuz, Haluk ^a  

^a SELCUK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Involuntary movements; Seizure; Vitamin B12 deficiency

Indexed keywords

CYANOCOBALAMIN;

CHOREA; CHOREOATHETOSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYANOCOBALAMIN DEFICIENCY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HUMAN; HYPSARRHYTHMIA; INBORN ERROR OF METABOLISM; INFANTILE SPASM; INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; LETTER; MYOCLONUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SEIZURE; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TREMOR;

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; SEIZURES; VITAMIN B 12 DEFICIENCY;

EID: 55549114320     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2008.04.008     Document Type: Letter

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