Long-term developmental outcome in patients with West syndrome after epilepsy surgery

Brain and Development

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 731-738

  Iwatani, Yoshiko ^a   Kagitani Shimono, Kuriko ^a   Tominaga, Koji ^a   Okinaga, Takeshi ^a   Mohri, Ikuko ^a   Kishima, Haruhiko ^a   Kato, Amami ^b   Sanefuji, Wakako ^a   Yamamoto, Tomoka ^a   Tatsumi, Aika ^a   Murata, Emi ^a   Taniike, Masako ^a   Nagai, Toshisaburo ^a   Ozono, Keiichi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KINKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autism; Developmental outcome; Epilepsy surgery; Spasms; West syndrome

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CORTICOTROPIN;

ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MOTOR DEVELOPMENT; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; WEST SYNDROME;

BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPASMS, INFANTILE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 84865587269     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: 18727131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.braindev.2012.01.008     Document Type: Article

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