Infantile seizures: Infants are not just little children

Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 139-144

  Hsieh, David T ^a   Walker, Jennifer M ^b   Pearl, Phillip L ^b  

^a CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONGENITAL DISORDER; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HUMAN; INFANT; LACTIC ACIDOSIS; METABOLIC DISORDER; PROGNOSIS; PYRUVATE DEHYDROGENASE COMPLEX DEFICIENCY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; SIMPLE PARTIAL SEIZURE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD; HUMANS; INFANT; SEIZURES;

EID: 41549094974     PISSN: 15284042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11910-008-0022-1     Document Type: Review

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