Idiopathic recurrent stupor: A warning

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 368-369

  Granot, R ^a   Berkovic, S F ^b   Patterson, S ^b   Hopwood, M ^b   Mackenzie, R ^a,c  

^a PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; FLUMAZENIL; LORAZEPAM;

ACUTE STRESS DISORDER; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHEYNE STOKES BREATHING; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOVENTILATION; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; STUPOR;

EID: 1542616599     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2003.021691     Document Type: Article

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