Febrile convulsions: Is seizure duration the most important predictor of temporal lobe epilepsy?

Brain

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 1995, Pages 1521-1528

  Maher, John ^a   Mclachlan, Richard S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

EEG; Febrile convulsions; Mesial temporal sclerosis; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLEROSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY;

ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEDIGREE; SCLEROSIS; SEIZURES, FEBRILE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0029620481     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/118.6.1521     Document Type: Article

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