Drop-attacks in patients with partial epilepsy;Crisis de caida brusca en pacientes con epilepsia focal

Neurologia

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 109-113

  Suarez Moro R ^b   Salas Puig, J ^a   Mateos, V ^b   Amorin M ^b   Lahoz, C H ^b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO CENTRAL DE ASTURIAS   (Spain)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Drop attacks; Focal epilepsy; Pharmacorresistant epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECTIVE NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; EPILEPTIC STATE; FALLING; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DETERIORATION; SEIZURE; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; SYNCOPE;

ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SYNCOPE;

EID: 0342748716     PISSN: 02134853     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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