Clinical spectrum of epileptic spasms in children

Brain and Development

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 37-48

  Lee, Yun Jin ^a,b   Berg, Anne T ^c   Nordli, Douglas R ^c  

^a Pusan National University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Pusan National University Yangsan Hospital   (South Korea)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Electroencephalography; Etiology; Seizures; Spasms

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN MALFORMATION; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLONIC SEIZURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISORIENTATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; EPILEPTIC SPASM; FEMALE; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; HYPSARRHYTHMIA; INFANT; INFANTILE SPASM; LENNOX GASTAUT SYNDROME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC DISORDER; MULTIPLE INDEPENDENT SPIKE FOCI; MYOCLONUS SEIZURE; OHTAHARA SYNDROME; ONSET AGE; PHAKOMATOSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR; SPIKE; SYMPTOM; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TONIC SEIZURE; WEST SYNDROME; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLICATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURES;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES; SPASMS, INFANTILE;

EID: 84919426157     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: 18727131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.braindev.2014.02.009     Document Type: Article

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