Temporary pure red-cell aplasia during valproate monotherapy: Clinical observations and spectral electroencephalographic aspects

Journal of Child Neurology

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 485-487

  Farkas, Viktor ^a,c   Szabó, Miklós ^a   Rényi, Imre ^a   Kohlhéb, Ottó ^a   Benninger, Christian ^b  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c University Children's Hospital   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHENOBARBITAL; VALPROIC ACID;

ALPHA RHYTHM; ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ERYTHROBLASTOPENIA; ERYTHROCYTE APLASIA; HUMAN; MACROCYTIC ANEMIA; MALE; PALLOR; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; THETA RHYTHM; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

EID: 0033913648     PISSN: 08830738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/088307380001500713     Document Type: Article

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