First-Drug Treatment Failures in Children Newly Diagnosed With Epilepsy

Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 71-77

  Dudley, Roy W R ^a,b   Penney, Sharon J ^a   Buckley, David J ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZATROPINE; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLOBAZAM; ETHOSUXIMIDE; ETIRACETAM; FLUOXETINE; FLUTICASONE; LACTULOSE; METHYLPHENIDATE; METOCLOPRAMIDE; MULTIVITAMIN; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; PROPRANOLOL; QUETIAPINE; RANITIDINE; RETINOL; RISPERIDONE; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID; VIGABATRIN;

APPETITE; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DIARRHEA; DIZZINESS; DROWSINESS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EPILEPSY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HAIR LOSS; HEADACHE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC EPILEPSY; LEARNING DISORDER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MEMORY DISORDER; MONOTHERAPY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; SIDE EFFECT; SLURRED SPEECH; SYMPTOMATIC EPILEPSY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREMOR; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; WEIGHT GAIN;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; ANTICONVULSANTS; CARBAMAZEPINE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALPROIC ACID;

EID: 58149176094     PISSN: 08878994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2008.09.021     Document Type: Article

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