Long-term prognosis of typical childhood absence epilepsy: Remission or progression to juvenile myoclonic epilepsy

Neurology

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 912-918

  Wirrell, E C ^a   Camfield, C S ^a   Camfield, P R ^a   Gordon, K E ^a   Dooley, J M ^a  

^a IWK Children's Hospital   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSENCE; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GRAND MAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SEIZURE;

EID: 0029832048     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.47.4.912     Document Type: Article

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