Childhood narcolepsy with partial facial cataplexy: A diagnostic dilemma

Sleep Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 797-798

  Dhondt, Karlien ^a   Verhelst, Helene ^b   Pevernagie, Dirk ^c   Slap, Florence ^d   Van Coster, Rudy ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c EPILEPSY CENTER KEMPENHAEGHE   (Netherlands)

^d Pediatric Rehabilitation and Epilepsy Unit Pulderbos   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Behavior disorder; Childhood; Facial Cataplexy; Hypocretin; Orexin

Indexed keywords

ESCITALOPRAM; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MODAFINIL; OREXIN; OREXIN A;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CATAPLEXY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; DAYTIME SOMNOLENCE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FACE DISORDER; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; NARCOLEPSY; ONSET AGE; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPEATED DRUG DOSE; SCHOOL CHILD; SYMPTOM; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

CATAPLEXY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CITALOPRAM; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FACIAL MUSCLES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; NARCOLEPSY; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS;

EID: 67650738713     PISSN: 13899457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2008.08.005     Document Type: Article

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