Nonconvulsive seizures in the pediatric intensive care unit: Etiology, EEG, and brain imaging findings

Epilepsia

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1510-1518

  Saengpattrachai, Montri ^a   Sharma, Rohit ^a   Hunjan, Amrita ^a   Shroff, Manohar ^a   Ochi, Ayako ^a   Otsubo, Hiroshi ^a   Cortez, Miguel A ^a   Carter Snead III, O ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Altered state; Consciousness; Pediatric Intensive Care Unit; Seizures

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; BRAIN DAMAGE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; MOOD CHANGE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, PEDIATRIC; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATUS EPILEPTICUS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

EID: 33748706428     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2006.00624.x     Document Type: Review

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