Rolandic spikes - The challenge to differentiate between benign and malignant pediatric epilepsies

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 122, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 851-853

  Jacobs, Julia ^a  

^a Department of Neuropediatrics ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EDITORIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; HUMANS;

EID: 79953028174     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2010.10.041     Document Type: Editorial

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