Factors predictive of outcome in posttraumatic seizures

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 883-888

  Wang, Hung Chen ^a   Chang, Wen Neng ^a   Chang, Hsueh Wen ^b   Ho, Jih Tsun ^a   Yang, Tzu Ming ^a   Lin, Wei Che ^a   Chuang, Yao Chung ^a   Lu, Cheng Hsien ^a,c  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTTRAUMATIC COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SEIZURE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICONVULSANTS; BRAIN INJURIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; COHORT STUDIES; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, POST-TRAUMATIC; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEIZURES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 42049117569     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e31804a7fa4     Document Type: Article

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