Epilepsia Partialis Continua over last 14 years: Experience from a tertiary care center from south India

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 55-59

  Sinha, S ^a   Satishchandra, P ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND NEUROSCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

DNKHC; EPC; Epilepsia Partialis Continua; Rasmussen's encephalitis

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIRTH INJURY; BRAIN METASTASIS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENCEPHALITIS; EPILEPTIC STATE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; GRANULOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPEROSMOLAR COMA; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INDIA; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MERRF SYNDROME; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PREGNANCY TOXEMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASMUSSEN SYNDROME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STROKE; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICONVULSANTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EPILEPSIA PARTIALIS CONTINUA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33947097974     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2006.12.003     Document Type: Article

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