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Hemiconvulsion-hemiplegia-epilepsy evolving to contralateral hemi-Lennox-Gastaut-like phenotype.
Brain & development - 1 May 2018
Myers Kenneth A, Scheffer Ingrid E, Archer John S
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BACKGROUND: Hemiconvulsion-hemiplegia-epilepsy (HHE) involves infantile-onset acute hemiconvulsive febrile status epilepticus with subsequent unilateral cerebral atrophy and hemiparesis. Chronic epilepsy later develops, typically involving refractory focal seizures; however, the underlying pathophysiology of this epilepsy is not well understood. PATIENT: We present a boy who had a typical acute presentation of...
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