Twenty years after childhood-onset symptomatic generalized epilepsy the social outcome is usually dependency or death: A population-based study

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 859-863

  Camfield, Carol ^a   Camfield, Peter ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADL DISABILITY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HOME CARE; HOMEBOUND PATIENT; HUMAN; LENNOX GASTAUT SYNDROME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MORTALITY; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; ONSET AGE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SYMPTOMATIC EPILEPSY; WALKING DIFFICULTY;

CHILD; DEMOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 54249130698     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2008.03165.x     Document Type: Article

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