The Course of Seizure Disorders in Patients with Malignant Gliomas

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 1995, Pages 717-724

  Moots, Paul L ^a   Maciunas, Robert J ^a   Eisert, Donald R ^a   Parker, Robert A ^a   Laporte, Kazel ^b   Khalil, Bassel Abou ^b  

^a Departments of Neurology Neurosurgery Radiation Oncology Preventive Medicine ^*  (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; CARBIDOPA; CARBIDOPA PLUS LEVODOPA; LEVODOPA; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; VALPROIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD TOXICITY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NEUROTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; SEIZURE; SEIZURE SUSCEPTIBILITY; SURVIVAL TIME;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICONVULSANTS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0029061691     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.1995.00540310091021     Document Type: Article

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