Idiopathic childhood occipital epilepsy of gastaut: A review and differentiation from migraine and other epilepsies

Journal of Child Neurology

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1536-1542

  Caraballo, Roberto ^a   Koutroumanidis, Michael ^b   Panayiotopoulos, Chrysostomos P ^b   Fejerman, Natalio ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE PEDIATRÍA PROF DR JUAN P GARRAHAN   (Argentina)

^b ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Focal epilepsy; Migraine; Occipital spikes

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; VALPROIC ACID;

BASILAR TYPE MIGRAINE; BLINDNESS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FAMILY HISTORY; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC CHILDHOOD OCCIPITAL EPILEPSY OF GASTAUT; MIGRAINE; MIGRAINE WITH AURA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL HALLUCINATION;

AGE FACTORS; ANTICONVULSANTS; BLINDNESS, CORTICAL; BRAIN; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; EPILEPSY; HALLUCINATIONS; HUMANS; MIGRAINE DISORDERS;

EID: 75149149184     PISSN: 08830738     EISSN: 17088283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0883073809332395     Document Type: Review

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