The value of combined ambulatory cassette-EEG and video monitoring in the differential diagnosis of intractable seizures

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 110, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1452-1457

  Shihabuddin, B ^a   Abou Khalil, B ^a   Fakhoury, T ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambulatory cassette EEG; Intractable seizures; Psychogenic seizures; Video EEG monitoring

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FACTITIOUS DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFANT; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIDEORECORDING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 0032838162     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-2457(99)00081-4     Document Type: Article

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