Occipital seizures presenting with bilateral visual loss

Neurology India

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 115-116

  Hadjikoutis, Savvas ^a   Sawhney, I M ^a  

^a MORRISTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blindness; Epilepsy; Occipital seizures

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CASE REPORT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; SEIZURE; SPIKE WAVE; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VOMITING;

ANTICONVULSANTS; BLINDNESS, CORTICAL; CARBAMAZEPINE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0041302368     PISSN: 00283886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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