Idiopathic West Syndrome followed by childhood absence epilepsy
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Idiopathic West Syndrome followed by childhood absence epilepsy
West Syndrome (WS) is a severe epileptic encephalopathy occurring in the first year of life. According the ILAE classification of epileptic seizures and epilepsy the etiology could be symptomatic or cryptogenic. Some authors identified a small group of patients (5%) with a particular good outcome, a complete recovery from seizures and a normal cognitive development within the cryptogenic group ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Seizure
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1059-1311
DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2010.07.016