A population-based study of seizures after traumatic brain injuries

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 338, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 20-24

  Annegers, John F ^a   Hauser, W Allen ^b   Coan, Sharon P ^a   Rocca, Walter A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN CONTUSION; BRAIN INJURY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; SKULL FRACTURE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN CONCUSSION; BRAIN INJURIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEMATOMA, SUBDURAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS; SEIZURES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0031975401     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199801013380104     Document Type: Article

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