Evaluation of the child who convulses with fever

Pediatric Drugs

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 457-461

  Rosman, N Paul ^a,b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIPYRETIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

BRAIN; CONVULSION; DEATH; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FEVER; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; IMAGING; INTOXICATION; LABORATORY TEST; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MENINGITIS; MORBIDITY; OTITIS MEDIA; PHAKOMATOSIS; PHARYNGITIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 0042623884     PISSN: 11745878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00128072-200305070-00003     Document Type: Review

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