Consistent EEG focalities detected in subjects with primary generalized epilepsies monitored for two decades

Epilepsia

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 797-812

  Lombroso, Cesare T ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Focal electroencephalograms; Idiopathic generalized epilepsy; Long term follow up

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CLONAZEPAM; ETHOSUXIMIDE; LORAZEPAM; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; TRIMETHADIONE; VALPROIC ACID;

ABSENCE; ARTICLE; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOCLONUS SEIZURE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, MYOCLONIC; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; EPILEPSY, TONIC-CLONIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0030743509     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1997.tb01467.x     Document Type: Article

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