Does antiepileptic drug therapy prevent the development of 'chronic' epilepsy?

Epilepsia

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 701-708

  Shinnar, Shlomo ^a,c   Berg, Anne T ^b  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; CORTICOTROPIN; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; PREDNISONE;

BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FEBRILE CONVULSION; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HUMAN; INFANTILE SPASM; KINDLING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REMISSION; REVIEW; SEIZURE;

EID: 0029797609     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1996.tb00639.x     Document Type: Review

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