Seizures complicating infantile and childhood bacterial meningitis

Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 165-171

  Chang, Chin Jung ^a   Chang, Hsueh Wen ^b   Chang, Wen Neng ^c   Huang, Li Tung ^c   Huang, Song Chei ^c   Chang, Ying Chao ^c   Hung, Pi Lien ^c   Chang, Chen Sheng ^e   Chuang, Yao Chung ^e   Huang, Chi Ren ^c   Tsai, Nai Wen ^c   Tsui, Huan Wen ^c   Wang, Kuo Wei ^d   Lu, Cheng Hsien ^c  

^a BUDDHIST TZU CHI GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c Department OfNeurology ^*  (Taiwan)

^d CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^e I SHOU UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOSE; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FOLLOW UP; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; INFANT; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOCLONUS SEIZURE; NEUROIMAGING; NEWBORN; ONSET AGE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 4544301768     PISSN: 08878994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2004.03.009     Document Type: Article

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