Specific Epileptic Syndromes Are Rare even in Tertiary Epilepsy Centers: A Patient-oriented Approach to Epilepsy Classification

Epilepsia

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 268-275

  Kellinghaus, Christoph ^a,b   Loddenkemper, Tobias ^a,b   Najm, Imad M ^a   Wyllie, Elaine ^a   Lineweaver, Tara ^a   Nair, Dileep R ^a   Lüders, Hans O ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Epilepsy classification; ILAE; Patient oriented; Reliability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN REGION; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; DATA BASE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL RETARDATION MALFORMATION SYNDROME; PELIZAEUS MERZBACHER DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT CARE TEAM; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 1542723649     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0013-9580.2004.36703.x     Document Type: Review

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