Cryptogenic West syndrome and subsequent mesial temporal lobe epilepsy

Epileptic Disorders

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 334-339

  Agari, Takashi ^a   Kobayashi, Katsuhiro ^a   Watanabe, Kiyoko ^a,b   Date, Isao ^a   Ohtsuka, Yoko ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b Kawasaki Rinko General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Corpora amylacea; Cryptogenic West syndrome; Ictal intracranial EEG; Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CRANIOTOMY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DIZZINESS; EPILEPSY; GLIOSIS; HUMAN; HYPSARRHYTHMIA; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; MESIAL TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; NEUROMONITORING; NOTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PALLOR; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; SIMPLE PARTIAL SEIZURE; SPIKE WAVE; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; WEST SYNDROME; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; HIPPOCAMPUS; INFANTILE SPASM; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPASMS, INFANTILE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84867427463     PISSN: 12949361     EISSN: 19506945     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1684/epd.2012.0518     Document Type: Note

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