Seizure identification by clinical description in temporal lobe epilepsy: How accurate are we?

Neurology

Volumn 61, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1686-1689

  Deacon, Charles ^a   Wiebe, S ^b,c   Blume, W T ^b,c   McLachlan, R S ^d   Young, G B ^b,c   Matiievic, S ^b  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

^d Shaikh Khalifa Medical Center   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMPLE PARTIAL SEIZURE; TELEMETRY; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

EID: 0346734160     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.WNL.0000090566.40544.04     Document Type: Article

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