Juvenile-onset alpers syndrome: Interpreting MRI findings

Neurology

Volumn 74, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 1231-1233

  Visser, N A ^a   Braun, K P J ^b   Van Den Bergh, W M ^d   Leijten, F S S ^a   Willems, C R B ^a   Ramos, L ^c   Van Den Bosch, B J C ^e   Smeets, H J M ^e   Wokke, J H J ^a  

^a Department of Neurology ^*  (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^d ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPERS DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; EPILEPTIC STATE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GRAND MAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; OCCIPITAL LOBE; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOM; THALAMUS;

EID: 77950961928     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e3181d90005     Document Type: Article

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