Significance of the EEG after the first afebrile seizure

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 575-577

  Panayiotopoulos, C P ^a  

^a ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; HUMAN; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEIZURE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

EID: 0031747286     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.78.6.575     Document Type: Review

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