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Catastrophic epilepsy in infants and children: identification of surgical candidates Volume 1, numéro 4, Décembre 1999

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Head, Section of Pediatric Epilepsy, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, S51, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA
  • Page(s) : 261-4
  • Année de parution : 2000

Paper presented at the World Conference on Pediatric Neurosurgery 2000: State of the Art and Perspectives for the Third Millenium, Martinique, 27 November to 4 December 1999. The term "catastrophic epilepsy" has been used to describe the clinical picture of severe, intractable epilepsy, usually with daily seizures, in the setting of developmental stagnation or regression, typically in infancy or early childhood. To the child's parents and [...]