Etiologies, outcomes, and risk factors for epilepsy in infants: A case-control study

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 352-356

  Masri, Amira ^a   Badran, Eman ^a   Hamamy, Hanan ^b   Assaf, Abeer ^a   Al Qudah, Abdelkarim A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

^b National Center for Diabetes Endocrinology and Genetics Jordan   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Etiologies; Infancy; Jordan; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN HYPOXIA; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN MALFORMATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CONSANGUINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOFACIAL SYNOSTOSIS; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; EPILEPSY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LEUKODYSTROPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC DISORDER; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PHAKOMATOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR;

ANTICONVULSANTS; BRAIN DISEASES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONSANGUINITY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INFANT; JORDAN; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SPASMS, INFANTILE;

EID: 41149130072     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2007.12.013     Document Type: Article

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