Predictors for recurrence of epileptic seizures in a general epilepsy population

Seizure

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 476-479

  Lossius, Morten I ^c   Stavem, Knut ^a   Gjerstad, Leif ^b  

^a AKERSHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Predictors; Recurrence of seizures

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NORWAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEIZURE;

EID: 0033379672     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/seiz.1999.0355     Document Type: Article

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