Post-traumatic epilepsy: An overview

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 108, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 433-439

  Agrawal, Amit ^a   Timothy, Jake ^b   Pandit, Lekha ^a   Manju, Murali ^a  

^a NITTE DEEMED TO BE UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b LEEDS GENERAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Head injury; Post traumatic epilepsy; Post traumatic seizures; Seizures; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; DIAZEPAM; GABAPENTIN; LAMOTRIGINE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; PROLACTIN; SCAVENGER; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID;

BRAIN CONTUSION; BRAIN HEMATOMA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CRANIECTOMY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; EXFOLIATIVE DERMATITIS; GRANULOCYTOPENIA; HEAD INJURY; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INCIDENCE; INJECTION SITE REACTION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROPHYLAXIS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; SIDE EFFECT; TRAUMATIC EPILEPSY;

ANTICONVULSANTS; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; COGNITION DISORDERS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PROLACTIN; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33646773226     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2005.09.001     Document Type: Review

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