Treatment of epilepsy in severely disabled children with bilateral brain malformations

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 37-49

  Saito, Yoshiaki ^a   Sugai, Kenji ^a   Nakagawa, Eiji ^a   Sakuma, Hiroshi ^a   Komaki, Hirofumi ^a   Sasaki, Masayuki ^a   Maegaki, Yoshihiro ^b   Ohno, Kousaku ^b   Sato, Noriko ^c   Kaneko, Yuu ^c   Otsuki, Taisuke ^c  

^a Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University   (Japan)

^b Tottori University   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Lissencephaly; Magnetoencephalography; Polymicrogyria; Positron emission tomography; Potassium bromide; Single photon emission computed tomography

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; CLOBAZAM; CLONAZEPAM; CORTICOTROPIN; DIAZEPAM; PHENOBARBITAL; POTASSIUM BROMATE; POTASSIUM BROMIDE; PYRIDOXINE; ZONISAMIDE;

ADOLESCENT; AGYRIA; AICARDI SYNDROME; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; ATONIC SEIZURE; BRAIN CORTEX; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HETEROTOPIA; HOLOPROSENCEPHALY; HUMAN; INFANTILE SPASM; KETOGENIC DIET; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MICROGYRIA; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; MUSCLE SPASM; MUSCLE TWITCH; NEUROIMAGING; OCULOGYRIC CRISIS; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SOMNOLENCE; STRIDOR; TONIC SEIZURE; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; ANTICONVULSANTS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MENTAL RETARDATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58149314158     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2008.10.009     Document Type: Article

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