Hemiconvulsion-hemiplegia syndrome in a patient with severe myoclonic epilepsy in infancy

Epilepsia

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2158-2162

  Sakakibara, Takafumi ^a   Nakagawa, Eiji ^a   Saito, Yoshiaki ^a   Sakuma, Hiroshi ^a   Komaki, Hirofumi ^a   Sugai, Kenji ^a   Sasaki, Masayuki ^a   Kurahashi, Hirokazu ^b,c   Hirose, Shinichi ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bromide; Laminar cortical necrosis; SCN1A; Status epilepticus

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; CLOBAZAM; DIAZEPAM; PHENYTOIN; POTASSIUM BROMIDE; VALPROIC ACID; VOLTAGE GATED SODIUM CHANNEL; ZONISAMIDE;

ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN NECROSIS; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CONVULSION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC STATE; EYELID; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HEMICONVULSION HEMIPLEGIA SYNDROME; HEMIPARESIS; HEMIPLEGIA; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; INFANCY; INTELLIGENCE; MYOCLONUS; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; NONSENSE MUTATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTAVIRUS; SCNIA GENE; SEIZURE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; VIRUS INFECTION; WHITE MATTER;

BRAIN; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EPILEPSIES, MYOCLONIC; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; SEIZURES; SEIZURES, FEBRILE; SODIUM CHANNELS; SYNDROME;

EID: 69149105137     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2009.02175.x     Document Type: Article

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