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Treatment of Focal Status Epilepticus plus Epileptic Spasms with Leukotomy in an Infant with TSC 1 Mutation: A Case Study.
The Neurodiagnostic journal - 1 Dec 2015
Park Jun T, Shahid Asim M, Miller Jonathan P, Lüders Hans O
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Focal status epilepticus and catastrophic epilepsy are not rare in infants. Epilepsy surgery can be safely done in selected infants to cure epilepsy. PATIENT DESCRIPTION: We report on an infant who began having drug-resistant status epilepticus at 2 weeks of age and developed epileptic spasms. We discuss in detail how the clinical and electroencephalographic data were used to reach a consensus for...
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