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[Effect of carbamazepine on epilepsy with 1p36 deletion syndrome].
No to hattatsu = Brain and development - 1 Jul 2007
Nabatame Shin, Okinaga Takeshi, Imai Katsumi, Kamio Noriko, Kagitani-Shimono Kuriko, Nagai Toshisaburo, Kurosawa Kenji, Ozono Keiichi
Abstract excerpt
The 1p36 deletion syndrome is caused by submicroscopic deletion in the subtelomeric region of chromosome 1. Epilepsy is one of the most important features of the syndrome, in addition to the characteristic facial appearance, cardiac anomaly, dysphagia, deafness, mental retardation and growth delay. We identified three patients with this syndrome and assessed the features of complicated epilepsy. In all cases,...
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