Seizure clustering during drug treatment affects seizure outcome and mortality of childhood-onset epilepsy

Brain

Volumn 131, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 938-944

  Sillanpää, Matti ^a   Schmidt, Dieter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b Epilepsy Research Group   (Germany)

Author keywords

AEDs; Drug resistance; Pharmacoresistance; Remission; Seizure clustering

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLONAZEPAM; LAMOTRIGINE; OXCARBAZEPINE; PHENYTOIN; PRIMIDONE; VALPROIC ACID; VIGABATRIN;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; ONSET AGE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; RISK; SEIZURE; SEIZURE CLUSTERING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

AGE OF ONSET; ANTICONVULSANTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG RESISTANCE; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FINLAND; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; REMISSION INDUCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 41849126343     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awn037     Document Type: Article

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