Generalized spike-wave discharges and seizures with focal ictal transformation: Mechanisms in absence (CAE) and myoclonic (JME) IGEs: Letters

Epilepsia

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2326-2329

  Koutroumanidis, Michalis ^a   Tsiptsios, Dimitrios ^a   Kokkinos, Vasileios ^a   Lysitsas, Konstantinos ^a   Tsiropoulos, Ioannis ^a  

^a GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; EPILEPSY; LETTER; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

CEREBRAL CORTEX; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MYOCLONIC EPILEPSY, JUVENILE;

EID: 70349322852     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2009.02316.x     Document Type: Letter

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