Hypothalamic hamartomas. part 1. clinical, neuroimaging, and neurophysiological characteristics

Neurosurgical Focus

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Mittal, Sandeep ^a   Mittal, Monika ^a   Montes, José Luis ^b   Farmer, Jean Pierre ^b   Andermann, Frederick ^c  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MONTREAL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Epilepsy syndromes; Gelastic seizure; Intrinsic epileptogenesis; Pedunculated hamartoma; Precocious puberty; Sessile hamartoma

Indexed keywords

NERVE PROTEIN;

COMPLICATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; HAMARTOMA; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMIC DISEASES; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; NEUROIMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; HYPOTHALAMUS DISEASE; REVIEW;

BRAIN WAVES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; HAMARTOMA; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMIC DISEASES; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROIMAGING;

EID: 84879117024     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10920684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2013.3.FOCUS1355     Document Type: Article

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