Malignant migrating partial seizures in infancy: An epilepsy syndrome of unknown etiology

Epilepsia

Volumn 50, Issue SUPPL. 5, 2009, Pages 49-51

  Coppola, Giangennaro ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Epileptic encephalopathy; Migrating partial seizures; Refractory epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CLONAZEPAM; ETIRACETAM; POTASSIUM BROMIDE; STIRIPENTOL;

ARTICLE; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; BRAIN DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; INFANCY; INFANTILE SPASM; MALIGNANT MIGRATING PARTIAL SEIZURE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOMOTOR DEVELOPMENT;

BRAIN; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 65549152163     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2009.02121.x     Document Type: Article

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