Etiological spectrum of symptomatic localization related epilepsies: A study from South India

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 158, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 65-70

  Murthy, J M K ^a   Yangala, Ravi ^a  

^a NIZAM'S INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Acute symptomatic; Cerebrovascular diseases; Neurocysticercosis; Neurotuberculosis; Putative etiology; Remote symptomatic; Single CT enhancing lesion; Small single cerebral calcific CT lesion

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALCINOSIS; CEREBRAL PALSY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CYSTICERCOSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALITIS; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUBERCULOSIS, MENINGEAL;

EID: 0032507893     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-510X(98)00093-8     Document Type: Article

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