If a first antiepileptic drug fails to control a child's epilepsy, what are the chances of success with the next drug?

Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 131, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 821-824

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

^a Grace Health Centre   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN;

ABSENCE; ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CHILD; GRAND MAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031455576     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-3476(97)70027-1     Document Type: Article

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