Clinical symptoms in psychogenic seizures

Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 111, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 469-475

  Gröppel, Gudrun ^a   Pataraia, Ekaterina ^a   Olbrich, Achim ^a   Bacher, Johanna ^a   Leutmezer, Fritz ^a   Aull, Susanne ^a   Kapitany, Thomas ^a   Lehrner, Johann ^a   Lindinger, Gerald ^a   Baumgartner, Christoph ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Differential diagnosis; Frontal lobe epilepsy; Psychogenic seizures

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FRONTAL LOBE EPILEPSY; HUMAN; PSYCHOGENESIS; SEIZURE; TONIC SEIZURE;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS; SEIZURES;

EID: 18744417457     PISSN: 00435325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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