Early post-traumatic epilepsy in a patient with initial normal CT scan

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 471-472

  Agrawal, Amit ^a   Cincu, Rafael ^b   Joharapurkar, S R ^a   Sarda, Kaustubh ^a  

^a DATTA MEGHE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO MIGUEL SERVET   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAZEPAM; PHENYTOIN;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINE FRACTURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LETTER; LOADING DRUG DOSE; MALE; SKULL FRACTURE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TRAUMATIC EPILEPSY; EPILEPSY; INJURY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; TIME;

EPILEPSY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 48249096868     PISSN: 00309982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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