Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and neurological features: A review

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 365-371

  Savasta, Salvatore ^a   Merli, Pietro ^a   Ruggieri, Martino ^b   Bianchi, Lucia ^a   Spartà, Maria Valentina ^a  

^a FONDAZIONE IRCCS POLICLINICO SAN MATTEO   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cerebrovascular complications; Ehlers Danlos syndrome; Epilepsy; Headache; Nervous system abnormalities

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTERY DYSPLASIA; BRACHIAL PLEXUS NEUROPATHY; CAROTID CAVERNOUS FISTULA; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CHOREA; CHRONIC PAIN; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; DANDY WALKER SYNDROME; DEMYELINATING NEUROPATHY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; EHLERS DANLOS SYNDROME; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; INTRACRANIAL HYPOTENSION; JOINT HYPERMOBILITY; LIQUORRHEA; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MICROGYRIA; MIGRAINE; MIGRAINE WITH AURA; MIGRAINE WITHOUT AURA; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYALGIA; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC NERVE ATROPHY; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PERIVENTRICULAR HETEROTOPIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTTRAUMATIC HEADACHE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRIPLEGIA; REVIEW; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBLUXATION; TENSION HEADACHE;

EHLERS-DANLOS SYNDROME; EPILEPSY; HEADACHE; HUMANS;

EID: 79953813324     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-010-1256-1     Document Type: Review

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