Successful management of intractable epilepsy with lidocaine tapes and continuous subcutaneous lidocaine infusion

Epilepsia

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1287-1290

  Mori, Kenji ^a   Ito, Hiromichi ^a   Toda, Yoshihiro ^a   Hashimoto, Toshiaki ^b   Miyazaki, Masahito ^a   Saijo, Takahiko ^a   Kuroda, Yasuhiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b NARUTO UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Lidocaine tape; Subcutaneous lidocaine infusion

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CLONAZEPAM; LIDOCAINE; MEXILETINE; PHENYTOIN; SULTIAME;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DERMATITIS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INFUSION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE EPILEPSY; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; SKIN ABSORPTION; TRANSDERMAL PATCH;

ADMINISTRATION, CUTANEOUS; ANTICONVULSANTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, FRONTAL LOBE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFUSIONS, PARENTERAL; LIDOCAINE; SLEEP; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 5344234127     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0013-9580.2004.17304.x     Document Type: Article

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