Infantile spasms: The devil is in the details, but do we see the forest for the trees?

Epilepsy Currents

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 151-152

  Jobst, Barbara C ^a  

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; PREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; STEROID; VIGABATRIN;

ADRENAL DISEASE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INFANTILE SPASM; NEPHROTOXICITY; NOTE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE; SOMNOLENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84864304744     PISSN: 15357597     EISSN: 15357511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5698/1535-7511-11.5.151     Document Type: Note

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