Postictal paresis in focal epilepsies - Incidence, duration, and causes: A video-EEG monitoring study

Neurology

Volumn 62, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2160-2164

  Gallmetzer, P ^a   Leutmezer, F ^a   Serles, W ^a   Assem Hilger, E ^a   Spatt, J ^b   Baumgartner, C ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Krankenhaus Hietzing mit Neurologischem Zentrum Rosenhugel   (Austria)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BODY POSTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLONIC SEIZURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; DYSTONIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GRAND MAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; PARESIS; PATHOGENESIS; PATIENT MONITORING; POSTICTAL PARESIS; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEIZURE; VIDEORECORDING;

EID: 2942752181     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.62.12.2160     Document Type: Review

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