Should People Be Treated After a First Seizure?

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 1986, Pages 1287-1288

  Hauser, W Allen ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; THERAPY;

ANTICONVULSANTS; HUMANS; RECURRENCE; SEIZURES;

EID: 0023002527     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.1986.00520120063017     Document Type: Article

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