Citation

Ganji S, Tilton AC, Happel L, Marino S. Clin. Electroencephalogr. 1987; 18(4): 180-186.

Affiliation

Department of Neurology, LSU Medical Center, New Orleans 70112.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1987, EEG and Clinical Neuroscience Society)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

3665108

Abstract

A 13-month-old child developed hypsarhythmia-infantile spasms after nearly drowning. Serial EEG, multimodality evoked potential, and CT scan of the brain revealed hypsarhythmia, disruption of ascending and descending tracts rostral to the mesencephalon, and a fairly severe degree of dilation of the ventricular system and subarachnoid space. We speculate that deafferentiation of the cerebral cortex is critical in the genesis of the hypsarhythmic pattern.

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