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Epilepsy secondary to tuberous sclerosis: lessons learned and current challenges.
Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery - 1 Nov 2010
Moavero Romina, Cerminara Caterina, Curatolo Paolo
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BACKGROUND: In tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC), a substantially increased risk of developing epilepsy is present as a result of a disruption of a TSC gene expression in the brain and secondary abnormal cellular differentiation, migration, and proliferation. Dysregulated excitation probably has its roots in the disruption of GABAergic interneuron development. There is an age-dependent electroclinical expression...
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