Managing epilepsy in young women

Current Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 202-207

  Betts, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contraception; Counselling; Epilepsy; Fertility; Ovary; Pre conception; Terat ogenesis; Women

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLOBAZAM; CLONAZEPAM; DANAZOL; DEPOT GESTAGEN; ESTROGEN; ETHOSUXIMIDE; ETIRACETAM; GABAPENTIN; GESTAGEN; GOSERELIN; LAMOTRIGINE; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; OXCARBAZEPINE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; PRIMIDONE; PROGESTERONE; TIAGABINE; TOPIRAMATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALPROIC ACID;

ADULT; CATAMENIAL EPILEPSY; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONTRACEPTION; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; HYPOSPADIAS; LEARNING DISORDER; LIMB MALFORMATION; MENARCHE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PATIENT COUNSELING; REVIEW; SEXUALITY; SKELETON MALFORMATION; TERATOGENESIS;

EID: 0034475033     PISSN: 09575847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1054/cuog.2000.0132     Document Type: Review

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