A population-based survey of childhood epilepsy in okayama prefecture, japan: Reclassification by a newly proposed diagnostic scheme of epilepsies in 2001

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 70, Issue SUPPL.1, 2006, Pages 34-40

  Akiyama, Tomoyuki ^a   Kobayashi, Katsuhiro ^a   Ogino, Tatsuya ^a   Yoshinaga, Harumi ^a   Oka, Eiji ^a   Oka, Makio ^a   Ito, Minako ^a   Ohtsuka, Yoko ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Childhood epilepsy; Epidemiology; General population; ILAE classification

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; EPILEPSY; HUMAN; INFANT; JAPAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; SYNDROME;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; INFANT; JAPAN; SEIZURES; SYNDROME;

EID: 33750587197     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: 18726844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2005.11.017     Document Type: Article

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