New onset epilepsy in Prader-Willi syndrome: Semiology and literature review

Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 297-299

  Benson, Leslie A ^b   Maski, Kiran P ^b   Kothare, Sanjeev V ^a   Bourgeois, Blaise F ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETIRACETAM;

ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; ATONIC SEIZURE; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM TENTORIUM; CHILD; CHROMOSOME 13Q; CHROMOSOME 15Q; CHROMOSOME DELETION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ERYTHEMA; FALLING; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FEVER; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; KARYOTYPE; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OROPHARYNX; PRADER WILLI SYNDROME; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHINORRHEA; SAGITTAL SINUS THROMBOSIS; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TRANSVERSE SINUS; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VIRUS INFECTION;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; MALE; PRADER-WILLI SYNDROME;

EID: 77956569653     PISSN: 08878994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2010.05.015     Document Type: Article

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