EEG and clinical predictors of medically intractable childhood epilepsy

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 110, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1245-1251

  Ko, Tae Sung ^a   Holmes, Gregory L ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Antiepileptic drugs; Developmental delay; Intractability; Seizures

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ABSENCE; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLONIC SEIZURE; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; LENNOX GASTAUT SYNDROME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONSET AGE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

AGE OF ONSET; BRAIN; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0032972287     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-2457(99)00068-1     Document Type: Article

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