Benign partial seizures of adolescence

Epilepsia

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1244-1247

  King, Mark A ^a   Newton, Mark R ^a   Berkovic, Samuel F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Epilepsy diagnosis; Epilepsy prognosis; Jacksonian seizures; Partial seizures

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 0032833104     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1999.tb00853.x     Document Type: Article

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