Vagal nerve stimulation for status epilepticus

Pediatric Neurosurgery

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 190-192

  Winston, Ken R ^a,b   Levisohn, Paul ^a   Miller, Bradford R ^a   Freeman, Jane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Corpus callosotomy; Epilepsy; Status epilepticus; Vagal nerve stimulation

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CLONAZEPAM; ETHOSUXIMIDE; FELBAMATE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONVULSION; CORPUS CALLOSOTOMY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC STATE; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROSURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; CORPUS CALLOSUM; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; STATUS EPILEPTICUS; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 0034998126     PISSN: 10162291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000056018     Document Type: Article

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