Clinical characteristics of status epilepticus in an emergency hospital: Importance of nonconvulsive status epilepticus

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 242-248

  Yoshimura, Hajime ^a   Takano, Shin ^a   Kawamoto, Michi ^a   Beppu, Minako ^a   Ohara, Nobuyuki ^a   Kobayashi, Junya ^a   Kuzuya, Akira ^a   Yamagami, Hiroshi ^a   Kohara, Nobuo ^a  

^a KOBE CITY MEDICAL CENTER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Convulsive status epilepticus; Nonconvulsive status epilepticus; Prognosis; Status epilepticus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMERGENCY WARD; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC STATE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; NONCONVULSIVE EPILEPTIC STATE; PROGNOSIS; SEIZURE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; STATUS EPILEPTICUS;

EID: 44849109008     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5692/clinicalneurol.48.242     Document Type: Article

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