Gastaut type-idiopathic childhood occipital epilepsy and childhood absence epilepsy: A clinically significant association?

Seizure

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 368-372

  Verrotti, Alberto ^a   Coppola, Giangennaro ^b   D'Egidio, Claudia ^a   Parisi, Pasquale ^c   Chiarelli, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Childhood absence epilepsy; EEG; Idiopathic occipital epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ETHOSUXIMIDE; VALPROIC ACID; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ABSENCE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; HYPERTRANSAMINASEMIA; LENNOX GASTAUT SYNDROME; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; STOMACH PAIN; STROBOSCOPY; BLINDNESS; COMPLICATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; HALLUCINATION; MIGRAINE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

ANTICONVULSANTS; BLINDNESS; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; ETHOSUXIMIDE; HALLUCINATIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VALPROIC ACID;

EID: 77955328693     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2010.04.010     Document Type: Article

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