Pseudoseizures in children: A profile of 50 cases

Clinical Pediatrics

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 617-621

  Bhatia, Manjeet S ^a,c   Sapra, Savita ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^c NONE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT;

AGE; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONVERSION DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEAR; FEMALE; GENERAL CONDITION IMPROVEMENT; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHOBIA; PSEUDOSEIZURE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REMISSION; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL; SEIZURE; SYMPTOM; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

CHILD; CONVERSION DISORDER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; PRECIPITATING FACTORS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 24144460919     PISSN: 00099228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000992280504400710     Document Type: Article

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