Challenges in the surgical treatment of epilepsy: Hypothalamic hamartoma in infancy - Case report

Journal of Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 12-15

  Mehl, Larissa Alessandra ^a   Liberalesso, Paulo Breno Noronha ^a,b   Spinosa, Mônica Jaques ^a   Machado, Sílvio ^a   Löhr Jr , Alfredo ^a  

^a HOSPITAL PEQUENO PRÍNCIPE   (Brazil)

^b University Tuiuti of Paraná   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Gelastic seizures; Hypothalamic hamartoma

Indexed keywords

CLONAZEPAM; PHENOBARBITAL; VALPROIC ACID; VIGABATRIN;

ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; ATONIC SEIZURE; BRAIN SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGENITAL TUMOR; DISEASE ACTIVITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EVOKED BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMIC HAMARTOMA; MUSCLE TONE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

EID: 84872592261     PISSN: 16762649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1676-26492012000100004     Document Type: Article

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