An infantile-onset, severe, yet sporadic seizure pattern is common in Sturge-Weber syndrome

Epilepsia

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2154-2157

  Kossoff, Eric H ^a   Ferenc, Lisa ^b   Comi, Anne M ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Clustering; Epilepsy; Sturge Weber syndrome

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; ATONIC SEIZURE; BRAIN HEMANGIOMA; CHILD; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COGNITION; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE INTERVAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; INFANT; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MENINGEAL CYST; MOTOR ACTIVITY; ONSET AGE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; STURGE WEBER SYNDROME; VISUAL FIELD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE OF ONSET; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PARESIS; PROGNOSIS; SEIZURES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STURGE-WEBER SYNDROME;

EID: 69149097789     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2009.02072.x     Document Type: Article

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