Classification and clinical features of absence epilepsies: How evidence leads to changing concepts

Epilepsia

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2140-2141

  Scheffer, Ingrid E ^a   Berg, Anne T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSENCE; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; FEBRILE CONVULSION; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; LETTER; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SYNDROME;

CONCEPT FORMATION; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; HUMANS;

EID: 57449087860     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2008.01904.x     Document Type: Letter

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