Infantile spasms: Toward a selective diagnostic and therapeutic approach

Epilepsia

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2218-2219

  Dulac, Olivier ^a   Bast, Thomas ^b   Bernardina, Bernardo Dalla ^c   Gaily, Eija ^d   Neville, Brian ^e  

^a ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HÔPITAUX DE PARIS   (France)

^b Klinik und Ambulanz für Kinder und Jugendliche   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF VERONA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAMOTRIGINE; PYRIDOXINE; SULTIAME; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID; VIGABATRIN; ZONISAMIDE;

AGYRIA; AICARDI SYNDROME; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONSENSUS; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOWN SYNDROME; DRUG MARKETING; DYSTONIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; GENE MUTATION; HEMIMEGALENCEPHALY; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HYPSARRHYTHMIA; INBORN ERROR OF METABOLISM; INFANTILE SPASM; KETOGENIC DIET; LENNOX GASTAUT SYNDROME; LETTER; LEUKOMALACIA; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL RECRUITMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PACHYGYRIA; PHENOMENOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDER; RELAPSE; RESPIRATORY CHAIN; RETINAL TOXICITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TONIC SEIZURE; TOXICITY; TREATMENT DURATION; TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS; UNITED STATES;

ANTICONVULSANTS; CONSENSUS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; HYPOXIA-ISCHEMIA, BRAIN; INFANT; SPASMS, INFANTILE; VIGABATRIN;

EID: 78649240579     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2010.02736.x     Document Type: Letter

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