The mortality and morbidity of febrile seizures

Nature Clinical Practice Neurology

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 610-621

  Chungath, Manoj ^a   Shorvon, Simon ^b  

^a AMRITA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE;

BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN EDEMA; DEATH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEBRILE CONVULSION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SUDDEN DEATH; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

BRAIN DISEASES; HUMANS; SEIZURES, FEBRILE;

EID: 55849120841     PISSN: 1745834X     EISSN: 17458358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpneuro0922     Document Type: Review

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