Bilateral operculum syndrome in childhood

Journal of Child Neurology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 544-550

  Szabó, Nóra ^a   Hegyi, Ágnes ^a   Boda, Márta ^a   Páncsics, Margit ^b   Pap, Csenge ^a   Zágonyi, Kristóf ^a   Romhányi, Éva ^a   Túri, Sándor ^a   Sztriha, László ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^b Municipal Hospital   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal (Rolandic) spikes; Developmental language disorder; Opercular underdevelopment; Operculum; Perisylvian polymicrogyria; Schizencephaly; Suprabulbar (pseudobulbar) paresis

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; LAMOTRIGINE; VALPROIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BILATERAL OPERCULUM SYNDROME; CASE REPORT; CHILD; COGNITIVE DEFECT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FEMALE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; MICROGYRIA; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOBULBAR PALSY; SCHIZENCEPHALY; SCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH DISORDER; SUPRASYLVIAN GYRUS;

BRAIN; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; COGNITION DISORDERS; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARESIS; SPEECH DISORDERS; SYNDROME; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 65549125963     PISSN: 08830738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0883073808327841     Document Type: Article

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