Lennox-Gastaut syndrome: a consensus approach on diagnosis, assessment, management, and trial methodology.

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Published in Lancet Neurol on January 01, 2009

Authors

Alexis Arzimanoglou1, Jacqueline French, Warren T Blume, J Helen Cross, Jan-Peter Ernst, Martha Feucht, Pierre Genton, Renzo Guerrini, Gerhard Kluger, John M Pellock, Emilio Perucca, James W Wheless

Author Affiliations

1: Institute for Children and Adolescents with Epilepsy-IDEE, University Hospitals of Lyon and INSERM U821, Lyon, France. alexis.arzimanoglou@chu-lyon.fr

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