Neonatal seizures

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 1998, Pages

  Evans, David ^a   Levene, Malcolm ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CLONAZEPAM; PARALDEHYDE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; PYRIDOXINE; VALPROIC ACID;

BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN HYPOXIA; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; METABOLIC DISORDER; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DISEASE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRIDOXINE DEFICIENCY; RECTAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; SEIZURE; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 0031779652     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/fn.78.1.F70     Document Type: Short Survey

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