Risk factors predicting refractoriness in epileptic children with partial seizures

Journal of Child Neurology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 195-199

  Altunbasak, Sakir ^a   Herguner, Ozlem ^a   Burgut, H Refik ^a  

^a CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Children; Intractable epilepsy; Partial seizure; Risk factor

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ANOXIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONVULSION; DATA ANALYSIS; EPILEPTIC STATE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; INFANT; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; ONSET AGE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 34249852187     PISSN: 08830738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0883073807300304     Document Type: Article

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