Etiology and clinical predictors of intractable epilepsy

Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 186-191

  Chawla, Sanjay ^a,d   Aneja, Satinder ^a   Kashyap, Ravi ^b   Mallika, Venkatesan ^c  

^a KALAWATI SARAN CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (India)

^b INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (India)

^c G B PANT HOSPITAL   (India)

^d C 13 Gharonda Apartments ^*  (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG MONITORING; FEMALE; GRANULOMA; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INFANT; INFANTILE SPASM; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYOCLONUS SEIZURE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEWBORN; ONSET AGE; PERINATAL MORBIDITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; SYMPTOMATIC EPILEPSY;

ANTICONVULSANTS; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOTOMY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 0036711399     PISSN: 08878994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0887-8994(02)00416-2     Document Type: Article

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