Seizure Recurrence after a First Unprovoked Seizure

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 307, Issue 9, 1982, Pages 522-528

  Hauser, W Allen ^a,b   Anderson, V Elving ^a,b   Loewenson, Ruth B ^a,b   Mcroberts, Stella M ^a,b  

^a Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EPILEPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; RECURRENT DISEASE; SEIZURE; SEX;

EID: 0019967139     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198208263070903     Document Type: Article

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