Nonfebrile illness seizures: A unique seizure category?

Epilepsia

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 952-955

  Zerr, Danielle M ^a,c   Blume, Heidi K ^a,b,c   Berg, Anne T ^d   Del Beccaro, Mark A ^a,c   Gospe Jr , Sidney M ^a,b,c   Allpress, Amanda L ^a   Christakis, Dimitri A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c SEATTLE CHILDREN S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; COUGHING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; RHINORRHEA; SEIZURE;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES; SEIZURES, FEBRILE;

EID: 20544435849     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2005.65204.x     Document Type: Article

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