Sesa syndrome: A subtype of localisation-related non-convulsive status epilepticus?

Seizure

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 306-307

  Fernández Torre, José L ^a   Aguirre Arrizubieta, Zaloa ^a,b   Pola, Francisco Casariego ^a   González Mandly, Andrés ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO MARQUÉS DE VALDECILLA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alcoholism; Complex partial status epilepticus; SESA syndrome; Subacute encephalopathy with seizures in alcoholics

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL; ALCOHOLISM; BRAIN DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPLEX PARTIAL STATUS EPILEPTICUS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC STATE; HUMAN; LETTER; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SESA SYNDROME; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

ALCOHOLISM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; STATUS EPILEPTICUS;

EID: 63249127071     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2008.11.007     Document Type: Letter

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