Epilepsy causing pupillary hippus: An unusual semiology

Epilepsia

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Centeno, Maria ^a,b   Feldmann, Maria ^a,b   Harrison, Neil A ^a   Rugg Gunn, Fergus J ^a,b   Chaudhary, Umair ^a,b   Falcon, Carles ^c   Lemieux, Louis ^a,b   Thom, Maria ^b   Smith, Shelagh J M ^a,b   Sisodiya, Sanjay M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIONS BIOMÈDIQUES AUGUST PI I SUNYER IDIBAPS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Autonomic seizures; EEG fMRI; Hippus; Tuberous sclerosis complex

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HIPPUS; HUMAN; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL; PUPIL DISEASE; PUPIL REFLEX; SEIZURE; SYMPTOM; VISION;

ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PUPIL DISORDERS;

EID: 79960904506     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2011.03137.x     Document Type: Article

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