Semiologic aspects of epileptic seizures in 31 patients with hypothalamic hamartoma

Epilepsia

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2116-2123

  Oehl, Bernhard ^a   Brandt, Armin ^a   Fauser, Susanne ^a   Bast, Thomas ^b   Trippel, Michael ^a   Schulze Bonhage, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Epileptogenesis; Gelastic seizures; Hypothalamic hamartoma; Seizure semiology

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATONIC SEIZURE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FEMALE; GELASTIC SEIZURE; GERMANY; HAMARTOMA; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMIC HAMARTOMA; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MYOCLONUS SEIZURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SIMPLE PARTIAL SEIZURE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TONIC SEIZURE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; FEMALE; HAMARTOMA; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMIC DISEASES; MALE; SEIZURES; SYNCOPE; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 78649266104     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2010.02686.x     Document Type: Article

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