Prevalence of epilepsy in Bursa city center, an urban area of Turkey

Epilepsia

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1691-1699

  Çalişir, Nermin ^a,b   Bora, Ibrahim ^a   Irgil, Emel ^a   Boz, Meral ^a  

^a ULUDAG UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Epilepsy; Prevalence; Seizures; Turkey

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; PHENOBARBITAL; VALPROIC ACID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BIRTH INJURY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHILD; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GENDER; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETT SYNDROME; SAMPLING; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOCIAL CLASS; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EPILEPSY; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; TURKEY; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 33749667564     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2006.00635.x     Document Type: Article

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