Chronology and evolution of temporal lobe epilepsy and endocrine reproductive dysfunction in women: Relationships to side of focus and catameniality

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 185-191

  Kalinin, Vladimir V ^a   Zheleznova, Elena V ^a  

^a N N BLOKHIN NATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER OF ONCOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Age at epilepsy onset; Catameniality; Female epilepsy; Laterality of foci; Reproductive dysfunction

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; VALPROIC ACID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CATAMENIAL EPILEPSY; CHRONOLOGY; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE DURATION; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HYPOGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ONSET AGE; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TREND STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTICONVULSANTS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHRONOLOGY AS TOPIC; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM DISEASES; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MENSTRUATION DISTURBANCES; MIDDLE AGED; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 34548045047     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2007.04.014     Document Type: Article

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