Is the first seizure truly epileptic?

Epilepsia

Volumn 49, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2008, Pages 2-7

  Perrig, Stephen ^a,b   Jallon, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b Faculty of Medicine   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Dissociation convulsion; First seizure; Parasomnia; Syncope

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVULSION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISSOCIATIVE CONVULSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; HUMAN; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SEIZURE; SYMPTOM; SYNCOPE; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

EID: 37749042836     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2008.01442.x     Document Type: Article

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