Dementia infantilis with cortical dysrhythmia
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Dementia infantilis with cortical dysrhythmia.
Dementia and the major psychoses are rare in children. Weygandt, in 1907, introduced the term dementia infantilis to describe cases of progressive mental deterioration of obscure causation, occurring in young children whose previous development had been normal. Since then many of the cases to which this description applies have been found to have a definite etiology in in-flammatory, degenerati...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Disease in Childhood
سال: 1942
ISSN: 0003-9888,1468-2044
DOI: 10.1136/adc.17.91.122