Prognosis of neonatal seizures: "It's the etiology, stupid" - Or is it?

Neurology

Volumn 69, Issue 19, 2007, Pages 1812-1813

  Dlugos, Dennis ^a   Sirven, Joseph I ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c MAYO CLINIC HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CALCIUM;

BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN MALFORMATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CEREBRAL PALSY; CLONIC SEIZURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; EDITORIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HUMAN; HYPOCALCEMIA; LEARNING DISORDER; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MORTALITY; NEWBORN DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SEIZURE; TONIC SEIZURE;

EID: 35948964439     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000279344.82107.7b     Document Type: Editorial

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