Childhood Seizures

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1061-1086

  Blumstein, Michelle D ^a   Friedman, Marla J ^a  

^a MIAMI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPYRETIC AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLONAZEPAM; DIAZEPAM; ETHOSUXIMIDE; ETIRACETAM; FELBAMATE; GABAPENTIN; GLUCOSE; LAMOTRIGINE; LORAZEPAM; LUMINOL; MIDAZOLAM; NALOXONE; OXCARBAZEPINE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; PRIMIDONE; PYRIDOXINE; TIAGABINE; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROATE SEMISODIUM; VALPROIC ACID; VIGABATRIN; ZONISAMIDE;

ABSENCE; ALOPECIA; ANEMIA; ANOREXIA; APLASTIC ANEMIA; ATAXIA; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; CANCER; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHILDHOOD; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CRYPTORCHISM; DIARRHEA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIPLOPIA; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DIZZINESS; ECLAMPSIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY CARE; FAMILY HISTORY; FATIGUE; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GRAND MAL EPILEPSY; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HEADACHE; HIRSUTISM; HUMAN; HYPERPLASIA; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INFECTION; INTOXICATION; IRRITABILITY; KETOGENIC DIET; LABORATORY TEST; LENNOX GASTAUT SYNDROME; LETHARGY; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER TOXICITY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; METABOLIC DISORDER; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; MYOCLONUS SEIZURE; NAUSEA; NEPHROLITHIASIS; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREATITIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; REVIEW; ROLANDIC EPILEPSY; SALIVATION; SEDATION; SEIZURE; SIDE EFFECT; SLEEP DISORDER; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; SYMPTOMATIC EPILEPSY; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREMOR; VISUAL DISORDER; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WEST SYNDROME;

EID: 35248816127     PISSN: 07338627     EISSN: 07338627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.emc.2007.07.010     Document Type: Review

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