Epileptic encephalopathies (including severe epilepsy syndromes)

Epilepsia

Volumn 53, Issue SUPPL. 4, 2012, Pages 114-126

  Covanis, Athanasios ^a  

^a AGHIA SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Antiepileptic drugs; Cognitive dysfunction; Electroclinical seizures; Encephalopathy; Immune mediated epilepsies; Pharmacoresistant epilepsies

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EEG ABNORMALITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FEVER; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; LANDAU KLEFFNER SYNDROME; LENNOX GASTAUT SYNDROME; OHTAHARA SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASMUSSEN SYNDROME; REVIEW; SEVERE MYOCLONIC EPILEPSY IN INFANCY; SPIKE WAVE; WEST SYNDROME;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN DISEASES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; SEIZURES, FEBRILE; SYNDROME; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 84865775787     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2012.03621.x     Document Type: Review

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