Long-term prognosis for symptomatic (secondarily) generalized epilepsies: A population-based study

Epilepsia

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1128-1132

  Camfield, Peter ^a   Camfield, Carol ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Childhood onset; Intractable; Remission; Secondarily generalized epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ABSENCE; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATONIC SEIZURE; CANADA; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CONTROL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; LENNOX GASTAUT SYNDROME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MYOCLONIC ASTATIC EPILEPSY; MYOCLONUS SEIZURE; ONSET AGE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REMISSION; SPIKE WAVE; WEST SYNDROME;

ADOLESCENT; AGE OF ONSET; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMORBIDITY; DATA COLLECTION; DISABILITY EVALUATION; EPILEPSIES, MYOCLONIC; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; NOVA SCOTIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROGNOSIS; SYNDROME;

EID: 34249798175     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2007.01072.x     Document Type: Article

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