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Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy subsyndromes: family studies and long-term follow-up.
Brain : a journal of neurology - 1 May 2006
Martínez-Juárez Iris E, Alonso María Elisa, Medina Marco T, Durón Reyna M, Bailey Julia N, López-Ruiz Minerva, Ramos-Ramírez Ricardo, León Lourdes, Pineda Gregorio, Castroviejo Ignacio Pascual, Silva Rene, Mija Lizardo, Perez-Gosiengfiao Katerina, Machado-Salas Jesús, Delgado-Escueta Antonio V
Abstract excerpt
The 2001 classification subcommittee of the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) proposed to 'group JME, juvenile absence epilepsy, and epilepsy with tonic clonic seizures only under the sole heading of idiopathic generalized epilepsies (IGE) with variable phenotype'. The implication is that juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) does not exist as the sole phenotype of family members and that it should no...
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