Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy
Subtitle: The Janz Syndrome
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: April 27, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781871816426
Subjects: Medical genetics; Neurology & clinical neurophysiology; Paediatric medicine; Epilepsy; Medical / Nursing; Medical; Neurology - General; Pediatrics
First sentence: When we talk today juvenile myoclonic epilepsy we think of a characteristic type of myoclonic seizure: we think perhaps of some problems of genetic analysis; we think as clinicians of valproate (VPA); and we certainly think of the poly spike-wave (PSW) pattern which we want to have this diagnosis confirmed.