The underlying etiology of infantile spasms (West syndrome): Information from the United Kingdom Infantile Spasms Study (UKISS) on contemporary causes and their classification

Epilepsia

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2168-2174

  Osborne, John P ^a,b   Lux, Andrew L ^c   Edwards, Stuart W ^a,b   Hancock, Eleanor ^d   Johnson, Anthony L ^e   Kennedy, Colin R ^f   Newton, Richard W ^g   Verity, Christopher M ^h   O'Callaghan, Finbar J K ^c,i  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL UNITED HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c BRISTOL ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

^d Child and Family Health Services   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^g ROYAL MANCHESTER CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^h ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Classification; Etiology; Infantile spasms; United Kingdom Infantile Spasms Study; West syndrome

Indexed keywords

PREDNISOLONE; TETRACOSACTIDE; VALPROIC ACID; VIGABATRIN;

ADRENAL CORTEX ATROPHY; AGYRIA; ARACHNOID CYST; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; CEREBRAL PALSY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM AGENESIS; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; DANDY WALKER SYNDROME; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; DOWN SYNDROME; ENCEPHALITIS; ENCEPHALOMALACIA; ETIOLOGY; FETUS HYPOXIA; HETEROTOPIA; HOLOPROSENCEPHALY; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INCONTINENTIA PIGMENTI; INFANT; INFANTILE SPASM; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENINGITIS; MICROCEPHALY; MUSCLE EYE BRAIN DISEASE; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; OPTIC NERVE HYPOPLASIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PORENCEPHALY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCHIZENCEPHALY; STROKE; TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS; UNITED KINGDOM; WEST SYNDROME;

FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; HYPOXIA-ISCHEMIA, BRAIN; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATIONS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SPASMS, INFANTILE; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS;

EID: 78649289486     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2010.02695.x     Document Type: Article

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