Antiepileptic drugs for preventing seizures in people with brain tumors

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn , Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Tremont Lukats, Ivo ^a   Ratilal, B O ^b   Armstrong, T ^b   Gilbert, M R ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; VALPROATE SEMISODIUM;

ASTROCYTOMA; BLURRED VISION; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN TUMOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA ANALYSIS; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; EPENDYMOMA; FOLLOW UP; GAIT DISORDER; GLIOMA; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MENINGIOMA; NAUSEA; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROPHYLAXIS; RASH; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; SELLA TURCICA TUMOR; SKULL BASE TUMOR; SORE GUM; TREMOR; VERTIGO;

EID: 44949092552     PISSN: 1469493X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD004424.pub2     Document Type: Review

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