Outcome after prolonged convulsive seizures in 186 children: Low morbidity, no mortality

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 4-8

  Metsäranta, Piia ^a   Koivikko, Matti ^b   Peltola, Jukka ^b   Eriksson, Kai ^b  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CLONAZEPAM; DIAZEPAM; FUROSEMIDE; LORAZEPAM; MANNITOL; MIDAZOLAM; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; THIOPENTAL;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG EFFICACY; EPILEPSY; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FEMALE; FINLAND; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGNOSIS; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MORBIDITY; PROGNOSIS; SEIZURES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 1642476721     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0012162204000027     Document Type: Article

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