Advanced Alzheimer's Disease is a Risk Factor for Late-Onset Seizures

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 1990, Pages 847-850

  Romanelli, Matthew F ^a   Ashkin, Kenneth ^a   Morris, John C ^a   Coben, Lawrence A ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HUMAN; LATE ONSET EPILEPSY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHENYTOIN; RISK FACTORS; SEIZURES; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0024996068     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.1990.00530080029006     Document Type: Article

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