Infantile epileptic encephalopathy with late-onset spasms: Report of 19 patients

Epilepsia

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1290-1296

  Auvin, Stéphane ^a,b   Lamblin, Marie Dominique ^c   Pandit, Florence ^c   Vallée, Louis ^c   Bouvet Mourcia, Agnès ^c  

^a HÔPITAL ROBERT DEBRÉ   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c LILLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Children; Epilepsy; Epilepticencephalopathy; Epilepticspasms; Infant; Outcome

Indexed keywords

AGYRIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHOREOATHETOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COGNITION; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE DURATION; DYSTONIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPSARRHYTHMIA; INFANT; LENNOX GASTAUT SYNDROME; MALE; MUSCLE SPASM; MYOCLONUS SEIZURE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE; TONIC SEIZURE;

AGE OF ONSET; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPASMS, INFANTILE;

EID: 77954480804     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2010.02534.x     Document Type: Article

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