Absence status in the elderly as a late complication of idiopathic generalized epilepsies

Epileptic Disorders

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 39-42

  Bauer, Gerhard ^a   Bauer, Richard ^a   Dobesberger, Judith ^a   Benke, Thomas ^a   Walser, Gerald ^a   Trinka, Eugen ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Absence status; Elderly; Epilepsy; Idiopathic generalized epilepsy; Nonconvulsive status epilepticus

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; DIAZEPAM; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; LORAZEPAM; VALPROIC ACID;

ABSENCE STATUS; ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HUMAN; LOW DRUG DOSE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

AGED; ANTICONVULSANTS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; STATUS EPILEPTICUS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33947126598     PISSN: 12949361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1684/epd.2007.0059     Document Type: Article

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