Epilepsy in middle-aged and elderly people: A three-year observation

Epileptic Disorders

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 91-95

  Paradowski, Boguslaw ^a   Zagrajek, Mieszko M ^a  

^a WROCLAW MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Diagnostic; Elderly; Etiology; Late onset epilepsy; Type of seizure

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; BACLOFEN; CATECHOLAMINE RECEPTOR; LEVODOPA; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN AGONIST;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COLON CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; LATE ONSET EPILEPSY; LEUKOARAIOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; NEUROPATHOLOGY; ONSET AGE; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPSY, COMPLEX PARTIAL; EPILEPSY, TONIC-CLONIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOARAIOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES;

EID: 20444439590     PISSN: 12949361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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