A retrospective analysis of patients with febrile seizures followed by epilepsy

Seizure

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 211-216

  Saltik, Sema ^a   Angay, Aydan ^a   Özkara, Çigdem ^b   Demirbilek, Veysi ^a   Dervent, Aysin ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Childhood epilepsy; Childhood epilepsy with occupital paroxysms; Febrile seizures; Temporal lobe epilepsy with mesial temporal sclerosis

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; EPILEPSY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FEMALE; FEVER; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; ONSET AGE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TIME;

EID: 0037835861     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1059-1311(02)00226-1     Document Type: Article

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