Remission, intractability, and antiepileptic-drug withdrawal

Lancet Neurology

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 390-391

  Wingerchuk, Dean M ^a   Sirven, Joseph I ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; DOSE RESPONSE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; LONG TERM CARE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORBIDITY; OSTEOPOROSIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEIZURE; SHORT SURVEY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

EID: 20444462291     PISSN: 14744422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1474-4422(05)70102-2     Document Type: Letter

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