Clinical and EEG features of patients with EEG wicket rhythms misdiagnosed with epilepsy

Neurology

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1879-1883

  Krauss, Gregory L ^a,b   Abdallah, A ^a   Lesser, R ^a   Thompson, R E ^a   Niedermeyer, E ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Meyer 2 147 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPIKE WAVE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGE OF ONSET; BRAIN DISEASES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 20444405297     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.WNL.0000163991.97456.03     Document Type: Article

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