Prognostic factors in the persistence of posttraumatic epilepsy after penetrating head injuries sustained in war: Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 319-326

  Eftekhar, Behzad ^a,c   Sahraian, Mohammad Ali ^a   Nouralishahi, Banafsheh ^a   Khaji, Ali ^a   Vahabi, Zahra ^a   Ghodsi, Mohammad ^a   Araghizadeh, Hassan ^b   Soroush, Mohammad Reza ^b   Esmaeili, Sima Karbalaei ^b   Masoumi, Mehdi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b Medical and Engineering Research Center   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Penetrating war head injury; Posttraumatic epilepsy; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ANUS SPHINCTER DISORDER; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LOG RANK TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE; TRAUMATIC EPILEPSY; WAR; BRAIN INJURY; FOLLOW UP; GUNSHOT INJURY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; REMISSION; VETERAN;

ADULT; BRAIN INJURY, CHRONIC; EPILEPSY, POST-TRAUMATIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEAD INJURIES, PENETRATING; HUMANS; IRAQ WAR, 2003 -; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PROGNOSIS; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS; VETERANS; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 62649170239     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2008.4.17519     Document Type: Article

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