Generalized Epilepsy With Febrile Seizures plus: Novel SCN1A Mutation

Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 137-140

  Dimova, Petia S ^a   Yordanova, Iglika ^b   Bojinova, Veneta ^a   Jordanova, Albena ^b   Kremenski, Ivo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ALEXANDROVSKA   (Bulgaria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOBAZAM; CLONAZEPAM; ETIRACETAM; LAMOTRIGINE; PHENYTOIN; POTASSIUM BROMIDE; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID;

ABSENCE; ADD ON THERAPY; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATONIC SEIZURE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DNA DETERMINATION; DRAVET SYNDROME; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEBRILE CONVULSION; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY WITH FEBRILE SEIZURES PLUS; GRAND MAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; MYOCLONIC ASTATIC EPILEPSY; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; MYOCLONUS SEIZURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POINT MUTATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; POINT MUTATION; SEIZURES, FEBRILE; SODIUM CHANNELS;

EID: 73449141809     PISSN: 08878994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2009.09.007     Document Type: Article

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