Seizures during treatment of Vitamin B12 deficiency

Seizure

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 69-73

  Benbir, G ^a   Uysal, S ^a   Saltik, S ^b   Zeybek, C Aktuglu ^a   Aydin, A ^a   Dervent, A ^a   Yalcinkaya, C ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Goztepe Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Seizures; Vitamin B12 treatment

Indexed keywords

CLONAZEPAM; CYANOCOBALAMIN; HEMOGLOBIN; PHENOBARBITAL; VALPROIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLONIC SEIZURE; CYANOCOBALAMIN DEFICIENCY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MOTOR RETARDATION; MUSCLE TONE; MYOCLONUS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; SEIZURE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TIC;

ANEMIA, MEGALOBLASTIC; ANTICONVULSANTS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; SEIZURES; VITAMIN B 12; VITAMIN B 12 DEFICIENCY; VITAMIN B COMPLEX;

EID: 33845480064     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2006.10.016     Document Type: Article

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