Efficacy of repeated adrenocorticotropic hormone therapy in patients with intractable epileptic spasms

No To Hattatsu

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 281-287

  Ikegami, Mariko ^a,b   Takahashi, Yukitoshi ^a   Ikeda, Hiroko ^a   Imai, Katsumi ^a   Otani, Hideyuki ^a   Kubota, Yuko ^a   Shigematsu, Hideo ^a   Takayama, Rumiko ^a   Mogami, Yukiko ^a  

^a SHIZUOKA INSTITUTE OF EPILEPSY AND NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS   (Japan)

^b TOKAI UNIVERSITY HACHIOJI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE CONTROL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; ONSET AGE; RELAPSE; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT DURATION;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; AGE OF ONSET; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PROGNOSIS; SPASMS, INFANTILE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84880427814     PISSN: 00290831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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