Epilepsies after pocket monster seizures

Epilepsia

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 980-982

  Okumura, Akihisa ^a   Watanabe, Kazuyoshi ^a   Negoro, Tamiko ^a   Ishikawa, Tatsuya ^b   Ishiguro, Yoshiko ^a   Takenaka, Junko ^a   Takada, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Photosensitivity; Pocket monster seizures; Recurrence

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLOBAZAM; PHENYTOIN;

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FOLLOW UP; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; PATIENT CODING; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; SPIKE WAVE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

CARTOONS; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; EPILEPSY; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; EPILEPSY, REFLEX; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; RECURRENCE; SEIZURES; TELEVISION;

EID: 20544450466     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2005.59104.x     Document Type: Article

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