Neonatal seizures: Eyes open or closed?

Epilepsia

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 394-396

  Bauder, Florian ^a   Wohlrab, Gabriele ^a   Schmitt, Bernhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Eye; Neonate; Seizure

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLONIC SEIZURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EYE MOVEMENT; EYELID CLOSURE; EYELID MOVEMENT; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE SPASM; MYOCLONUS SEIZURE; NEWBORN DISEASE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TONIC-CLONIC; EYELIDS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; OCULAR PHYSIOLOGY; SEIZURES; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 33846810179     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2006.00950.x     Document Type: Article

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