Dementia and adult-onset unprovoked seizures

Neurology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 727-730

  Hesdorffer, D C ^a,d   Hauser, W A ^a   Annegers, J F ^b   Kokmen, E ^c   Rocca, W A ^c  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^d Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEIZURE;

EID: 0029914384     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.46.3.727     Document Type: Article

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