Postoperative Seizures: Epidemiology, Pathology, and Prophylaxis

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 589-600

  Manaka, Shinya ^a   Ishijima, Buichi ^b   Mayanagi, Yoshiaki ^c  

^a Manaka Hospital   (Japan)

^b SEIWA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN POLICE HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antiepileptic agents; Epidemiology; Pathology; Postoperative seizures; Prophylaxis; Zonisamide

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; ETIRACETAM; FELBAMATE; FREE RADICAL; LAMOTRIGINE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID; ZONISAMIDE;

ANHIDROSIS; ANIMAL MODEL; ANOREXIA; ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ATAXIA; BONE MARROW TOXICITY; BRAIN ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; BRAIN TUMOR; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOTOMY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DROWSINESS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GLIOMA; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENINGIOMA; META ANALYSIS; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEPHROLITHIASIS; NEUROPROTECTION; NEUROSURGERY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PSYCHOMOTOR RETARDATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN TOXICITY; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AGED; ANTICONVULSANTS; BRAIN DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SEIZURES;

EID: 0942276885     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.43.589     Document Type: Review

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