Late-onset epileptic spasms in children with pallister-killian syndrome: A report of two new cases and review of the electroclinical aspects

Journal of Child Neurology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 238-245

  Cerminara, Caterina ^a   Compagnone, Eliana ^a   Bagnolo, Valentina ^a   Galasso, Cinzia ^a   Lo Castro, Adriana ^a   Brinciotti, Mario ^b   Curatolo, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Developmental delay; Epilepsy; Isochromosome 12p; Pallister Killian syndrome; Spasms

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; LAMOTRIGINE; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID; VIGABATRIN;

ADD ON THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN STEM; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHROMOSOME 12Q; CHROMOSOME G BAND; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLONUS; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL HIP DISLOCATION; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DELTOID MUSCLE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; FACE DYSMORPHIA; FIBROBLAST CULTURE; FINGER NAIL; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HALLUX VALGUS; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; IRRITABILITY; KARYOTYPE; KARYOTYPE 46,XY; LYMPHEDEMA; MALE; METAPHASE; MONOTHERAPY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; MUSCLE SPASM; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PALLISTER KILLIAN SYNDROME; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR DEVELOPMENT; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN FIBROBLAST; SLOW BRAIN WAVE; SPIKE WAVE;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; AGE OF ONSET; BRAIN; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; HUMANS; KARYOTYPING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RARE DISEASES; SEIZURES; SYNDROME;

EID: 76049116028     PISSN: 08830738     EISSN: 17088283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0883073809336933     Document Type: Article

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