Pediatric Seizure and Epilepsy Classification: Why Is It Important or Is It Important?

Seminars in Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 16-22

  Troester, Matthew ^a   Rekate, Harold L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EEG ABNORMALITY; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GRAND MAL EPILEPSY; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HUMAN; INFANTILE SPASM; MYOCLONUS SEIZURE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEWBORN DISEASE; REVIEW; SEIZURE;

CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; SEIZURES;

EID: 65349132619     PISSN: 10719091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spen.2009.01.003     Document Type: Review

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