Seizure Semiology in the Elderly: A Video Analysis

Epilepsia

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 263-267

  Kellinghaus, Christoph ^a,b   Loddenkemper, Tobias ^a,b   Dinner, Dudley S ^a   Lachhwani, Deepak ^a   Lüders, Hans O ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Elderly; Video EEG

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGING; ARTICLE; AUTOMATISM; CLONIC SEIZURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC AURA; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FRONTAL LOBE EPILEPSY; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; ONSET AGE; PARIETAL LOBE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TONIC SEIZURE; VIDEORECORDING;

AGED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEIZURES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 1542618501     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0013-9580.2004.29003.x     Document Type: Article

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