How generalised are secondarily "generalised" tonic-clonic seizures?

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 78, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 993-996

  Schindler, Kaspar ^a,b   Leung, Howan ^a   Lehnertz, Klaus ^a   Elger, Christian E ^a  

^a Klinik fur Epileptologie   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FEMALE; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TONIC-CLONIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY;

EID: 34548177034     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2006.108753     Document Type: Article

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