Syncope. Clinical features and differentiation from epilepsy;Synkopen. Phanomenologie und differenzierung yon epileptischen anfallen

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Volumn 68, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 620-624

  Lempert, Th ^a,b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cerebral hypoxia; Differential diagnosis; Myoclonus; Review; Seizure; Syncope

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE; PROLACTIN;

BRAIN HYPOXIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; HUMAN; MYOCLONUS; REVIEW; SYNCOPE; ADULT; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; TILT TABLE TEST; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

ADULT; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; SYNCOPE; SYNCOPE, VASOVAGAL; TILT-TABLE TEST;

EID: 0030803159     PISSN: 00282804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001150050171     Document Type: Review

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