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Neuropediatrics 2002; 33(1): 53-55
DOI: 10.1055/s-2002-23599
Letter to the Editor

Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York

Alice in Wonderland Syndrome: A Clinical Presentation of Frontal Lobe Epilepsy

P. J. G. Zwijnenburg1 , J. M. B. Wennink1 , D. M. Laman2 , W. H. J. P. Linssen3
  • 1 Department of Pediatrics, St. Lucas Andreas Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • 2 Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, St. Lucas Andreas Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • 3 Department of Neurology, St. Lucas Andreas Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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03 April 2002 (online)

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Abbreviations

AWS Alice in Wonderland syndrome

BEOP benign partial epilepsy with occipital paroxysms

CNS central nervous system

EBV Epstein-Barr virus

EEG Electro-encephalogram

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