Seizure clustering: Risks and outcomes

Epilepsia

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 146-149

  Haut, Sheryl R ^a,b   Shinnar, Shlomo ^a   Moshé, Solomon L ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Extratemporal epilepsy; Head trauma; Intractable epilepsy; Seizure clustering; Status epilepticus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ADULT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COHORT STUDIES; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTORS; STATUS EPILEPTICUS; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

EID: 13144254187     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0013-9580.2005.29004.x     Document Type: Article

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