Factors Prognostic of Unprovoked Seizures after Febrile Convulsions

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 316, Issue 9, 1987, Pages 493-498

  Annegers, John F ^a,b,c   Hauser, W Allen ^a,b,c   Shirts, Sally B ^a,b,c   Kurland, Leonard T ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b and Epidemiology   (United States)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHILD; EPILEPSY; FEBRILE CONVULSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; SEIZURE;

EID: 0023117724     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198702263160901     Document Type: Article

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