Incidence of epilepsy and predictive factors of epileptic and non-epileptic seizures

Seizure

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 175-182

  Kotsopoulos, Irene ^a   de Krom, Marc ^a   Kessels, Fons ^a   Lodder, Jan ^a   Troost, Jaap ^a   Twellaar, Mascha ^b   van Merode, Tiny ^b   Knottnerus, André ^b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Epilepsy; Incidence; Non epileptic seizures; Predictive factors; Unprovoked seizures

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NETHERLANDS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; ODDS RATIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 15844370320     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2005.01.005     Document Type: Article

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