A case of severe status epilepticus of frontal lobe origin successfully treated with corticosteroids

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 461-464

  Akanuma, Hiroshi ^a   Sekijima, Yoshiki ^a   Tokuda, Takahiko ^a   Takematsu, Hayato ^a   Yanagisawa, Nobuo ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

123I IMP SPECT; Frontal lobe epilepsy; Isolated angiitis of the central nervous system; Status epileptics; Steroid therapy

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; CORTICOSTEROID; DIAZEPAM; INOSINE PHOSPHATE; IODINE 123; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; PREDNISOLONE; THIOPENTAL;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATISM; BRAIN VASCULITIS; CASE REPORT; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DELTA RHYTHM; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; FEVER; FRONTAL LOBE EPILEPSY; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADOLESCENT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; EPILEPSY, FRONTAL LOBE; FEMALE; HUMANS; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE; STATUS EPILEPTICUS;

EID: 0031791433     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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