Avoiding the costs of unrecognized psychological nonepileptic seizures

Neurology

Volumn 66, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1620-1621

  LaFrance Jr , W Curt ^a   Benbadis, Selim R ^b  

^a RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EDITORIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INTUBATION; PARALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL NONEPILEPTIC SEIZURE; RISK FACTOR; SEDATION; SEIZURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; MEDICAL ERRORS; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS; SEIZURES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33745641105     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000224953.94807.be     Document Type: Editorial

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