Three-day phenytoin prophylaxis is adequate after subarachnoid hemorrhage

Neurosurgery

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 99-102

  Chumnanvej, Sorayouth ^a   Dunn, Ian F ^a   Kim, Dong H ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Anticonvulsant; Arteriovenous malformation; Intracranial aneurysm; Phenytoin; Seizure; Subarachnoid hemorrhage

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; PHENYTOIN;

ADULT; ALLERGIC REACTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY; LEUKOPENIA; LIVER TOXICITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANCREATITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RASH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

COHORT STUDIES; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHENYTOIN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 33846226649     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000249207.66225.D9     Document Type: Article

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