Low-voltage activity in EEG during acute phase of encephalitis predicts unfavorable neurological outcome

Brain and Development

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 161-165

  Hosoya, Machiko ^a,b   Ushiku, Hideo ^a   Arakawa, Hirokazu ^b   Morikawa, Akihiro ^b  

^a Nagano Prefectural Federation of Agricultural Cooperative for Health and Welfare   (Japan)

^b GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute encephalitis; Epilepsy; Low voltage EEG activity; Prognosis; Single photon emission computed tomography

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTION; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; AGE OF ONSET; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALITIS; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0036204128     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0387-7604(02)00011-6     Document Type: Article

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