A systematic review of treatment of typical absence seizures in children and adolescents with ethosuximide, sodium valproate or lamotrigine

Seizure

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 117-122

  Posner, Ewa B ^a   Mohamed, Khalid ^b   Marson, Anthony G ^b  

^a ROYAL VICTORIA INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Absence seizures; Ehosuximide; Lamotrigine; Sodium valproate

Indexed keywords

ETHOSUXIMIDE; LAMOTRIGINE; PLACEBO; VALPROIC ACID;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABSENCE; ADOLESCENT; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; ASTHENIA; BODY WEIGHT DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD CARE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIZZINESS; DROWSINESS; DRUG ERUPTION; DYSPEPSIA; EMBASE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FATIGUE; HAIR LOSS; HEADACHE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERKINESIA; LEUKOPENIA; MEDLINE; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; MONOTHERAPY; NAUSEA; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREMOR; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANTICONVULSANTS; CHILD; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; ETHOSUXIMIDE; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; TRIAZINES; VALPROIC ACID;

EID: 13444282602     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2004.12.003     Document Type: Article

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