Atypical benign partial epilepsy: Recognition can prevent pseudocatastrophe

Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 411-419

  Fujii, Akiko ^a   Oguni, Hirokazu ^a   Hirano, Yoshiko ^a   Osawa, Makiko ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; ETHOSUXIMIDE; STEROID;

ARTICLE; ATONIC SEIZURE; ATYPICAL BENIGN PARTIAL EPILEPSY; CATALEPSY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; MALE; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; NEUROIMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTICONVULSANTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 78649258459     PISSN: 08878994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2010.06.018     Document Type: Article

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