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West’s syndrome or “infantile spasms” is named after a physician by the name of West, who wrote a letter to Lancet in 1841 in which he described a “peculiar form of convulsion” associated with mental retardation as seen in his son. Clinically, West’s syndrome consists of a triad of myoclonic spasms, hypsarrhythmic EEG and mental retardation.
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Hoffman, H.J. (2002). Surgery for West’s Syndrome. In: Burnham, W.M., Carlen, P.L., Hwang, P.A. (eds) Intractable Seizures. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 497. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1335-3_7
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