Risk of intracranial pathologic conditions requiring emergency intervention after a first complex febrile seizure episode among children

Pediatrics

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 304-308

  Teng, David ^a   Dayan, Peter ^a   Tyler, Sarah ^b   Hauser, W Allen ^a,c,d   Chan, Stephen ^a   Leary, Linda ^a   Hesdorffer, Dale ^c,d  

^a Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

^d P and S Unit 16 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Complex febrile seizures; Emergency intracranial pathology; Neuroimaging

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EMERGENCY WARD; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSURGERY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; EMERGENCIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SEIZURES, FEBRILE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33644869151     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 02105721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2005-0759     Document Type: Article

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