Clinical and radiologic correlates of frontal intermittent rhythmic delta activity

Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 535-539

  Watemberg, Nathan ^a   Alehan, Fusun ^b   Dabby, Ron ^a   Lerman Sagie, Tally ^a   Pavot, Pierre ^c   Towne, Alan ^c  

^a WOLFSON MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical; Correlates; FIRDA; Radiologic

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS; DELTA RHYTHM; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRONTAL INTERMITTENT RHYTHMIC DELTA ACTIVITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERTENSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; METABOLIC DISORDER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RISK FACTOR; SEX RATIO; UNITED STATES; UREMIA; WAKEFULNESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN DISEASES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DELTA RHYTHM; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VIRGINIA;

EID: 0036908292     PISSN: 07360258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004691-200212000-00006     Document Type: Article

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