Fatality from hepatitis a in a child taking valproate

Journal of Child Neurology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 135-136

  Fayad, Michel ^a   Choueiri, Roula ^a   Mikati, Mohamad ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VALPROIC ACID;

ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HEPATITIS A; HUMAN; JAUNDICE; LIVER FAILURE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 0034012757     PISSN: 08830738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/088307380001500215     Document Type: Article

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