Childhood absence epilepsy and electroencephalographic focal abnormalities with or without clinical manifestations

Seizure

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 617-624

  Caraballo, Roberto Horacio ^a   Fontana, Elena ^b   Darra, Francesca ^b   Bongiorni, Lucas ^a   Fiorini, Elena ^b   Cersosimo, Ricardo ^a   Fejerman, Natalio ^a   Bernardina, Bernardo Dalla ^b  

^a Neurology Department   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Absences; Childhood; Focal epilepsy; Idiopathic; Outcome

Indexed keywords

ABSENCE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CHILD; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; ONSET AGE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGE OF ONSET; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES, FEBRILE;

EID: 58249087959     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: 15322688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2008.03.009     Document Type: Article

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