Epilepsy with myoclonic atonic seizures: An electroclinical study of 69 patients

Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 355-362

  Caraballo, Roberto H ^a   Chamorro, Noelia ^a   Darra, Francesca ^b   Fortini, Sebastian ^a   Arroyo, Hugo ^a  

^a Hospital Nacional Professor Dr Alejandro Posadas Servicio de Neurologia   (Argentina)

^b Policlinico GB Rossi   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOBAZAM; CORTICOSTEROID; ETHOSUXIMIDE; ETIRACETAM; LAMOTRIGINE; SULTIAME; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID; ZONISAMIDE;

ADD ON THERAPY; ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; ATONIC SEIZURE; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; CHILD; CHILDHOOD ABSENCE EPILEPSY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY WITH MYOCLONIC ATONIC SEIZURE; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZED CHILD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DETERIORATION; MYOCLONUS SEIZURE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPIKE WAVE; TENDON REFLEX; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

AGE OF ONSET; ANTICONVULSANTS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KETOGENIC DIET; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MYOCLONIC EPILEPSY, JUVENILE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES; SEIZURES, FEBRILE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 84876250850     PISSN: 08878994     EISSN: 18735150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2012.12.022     Document Type: Article

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