Preventable and unpreventable causes of childhood-onset epilepsy plus mental retardation

Pediatrics

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Camfield, Carol ^a   Camfield, Peter ^a,b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b IWK HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Children; Epidemiology; Epilepsy; Etiology; Mental retardation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPILEPSY; FOLLOW UP; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MENTAL RETARDATION;

EID: 34447118769     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 02105721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2006-3290     Document Type: Article

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