Vagus nerve stimulation

Epilepsia

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 677-686

  Schachter, Steven C ^a,b   Saper, Clifford B ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Seizure; Treatment; Vagus nerve stimulation

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GENERATOR; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; IMPLANT; MYALGIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SORE THROAT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTICONVULSANTS; CHILD; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; HUMANS; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SOFTWARE; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 0031849235     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1998.tb01151.x     Document Type: Article

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