THE FIRST SEIZURE IN ADULT LIFE. Value of Clinical Features, Electroencephalography, and Computerised Tomographic Scanning in Prediction of Seizure Recurrence

The Lancet

Volumn 331, Issue 8588, 1988, Pages 721-726

  Hopkins, Anthony ^a   Garman, Andrea ^a   Clarke, Charles ^a   The Research Unit Of The Royal College Of Physicians, ^a  

^a ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PROGNOSIS; SEIZURE; TOMOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTICONVULSANTS; CONVULSIONS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; RECURRENCE; RISK; SEIZURES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0023845456     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(88)91535-8     Document Type: Article

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