Predictors of one-year seizure remission - A clinicoradiological and electroencephalographic study

Electromyography and Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 161-166

  Kalita, J ^a   Vajpeyee, A ^a   Misra, U K ^a  

^a Sanjay Gandhi PGI ^*  (India)

Author keywords

Anti epileptic drugs; Cryptogenic; Epilepsy; Idiopathic; Neurocysticercosis; Remission; Ring lesion; Symptomatic

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; PHENYTOIN; VALPROIC ACID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; POLYPHARMACY; REMISSION; SEIZURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTICONVULSANTS; BRAIN; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INDIA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RECURRENCE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 20744454483     PISSN: 0301150X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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