Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy starting in the eighth decade

Epileptic Disorders

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 341-345

  Tóth, Vanda ^a   Rásonyi, György ^b   Fogarasi, András ^c   Kovács, Norbert ^a   Auer, Tibor ^a   Janszky, Jószef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY AND NEUROLOGY   (Hungary)

^c Bethesda Children's Hospital   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Age; Aggravating effect of AEDs; Elderly; Idiopathic generalized epilepsy; Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; VALPROIC ACID;

AGED; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; JUVENILE MYOCLONIC EPILEPSY; MALE; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEIZURE;

AGED; ANTICONVULSANTS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TONIC-CLONIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MYOCLONIC EPILEPSY, JUVENILE; VALPROIC ACID;

EID: 35348960062     PISSN: 12949361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1684/epd.2007.0124     Document Type: Review

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