Seizures in a 7-Month-Old Child After Exposure to the Essential Plant Oil Thuja

Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 446-448

  Stafstrom, Carl E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEDAR LEAF OIL; DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS VACCINE; ESSENTIAL OIL; PHENOBARBITAL;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTOGENESIS; HOMEOPATHY; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INFANT; LEISURE; MALE; MEDICINAL PLANT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; THUJA; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; VACCINATION;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT OILS; PLANT PREPARATIONS; SEIZURES; THUJA;

EID: 36048970987     PISSN: 08878994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2007.07.008     Document Type: Article

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