Rational treatment options with AEDs and ketogenic diet in Landau-Kleffner syndrome: Still waiting after all these years

Epilepsia

Volumn 50, Issue SUPPL. 7, 2009, Pages 59-62

  Lagae, Lieven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Antiepileptic drugs; CSWS; ESES; Ketogenic diet; Landau Kleffner syndrome

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLOBAZAM; DIAZEPAM; ETHOSUXIMIDE; ETIRACETAM; FELBAMATE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; LORAZEPAM; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; STEROID; SULTIAME; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID; VIGABATRIN;

CONFERENCE PAPER; DRUG EFFICACY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; IMMUNOTHERAPY; KETOGENIC DIET; LANDAU KLEFFNER SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEROID THERAPY;

ANTICONVULSANTS; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BENZODIAZEPINES; CHILD; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; ETHOSUXIMIDE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; KETOGENIC DIET; LANDAU-KLEFFNER SYNDROME; SLEEP; SPEECH THERAPY; STATUS EPILEPTICUS; VALPROIC ACID;

EID: 68149161669     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2009.02222.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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