Left vagal nerve stimulation in children with medically refractory epilepsy

Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 134, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 563-566

  Murphy, Jerome V ^a  

^a CHILDREN S MERCY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMON COLD; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; LARYNX DISORDER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SKIN NECROSIS; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 0033497868     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-3476(99)70241-6     Document Type: Article

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