The idiopathic generalized epilepsies of adolescence with childhood and juvenile age of onset

Epilepsia

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 4-11

  Janz, Dieter ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; GRAND MAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SLEEP PATTERN; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE;

EID: 0031024530     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1997.tb01073.x     Document Type: Review

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