Newly diagnosed single unprovoked seizures and epilepsy in Stockholm, Sweden: First report from the Stockholm Incidence Registry of Epilepsy (SIRE)

Epilepsia

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1094-1101

  Adelöw, Cecilia ^a,b   Åndell, Eva ^a   Åmark, Per ^a   Andersson, Tomas ^b   Hellebro, Eva ^b   Ahlbom, Anders ^b,c   Tomson, Torbjörn ^b  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c Stockholm Centre of Public Health   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Epilepsy; Incidence

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SCREENING TEST; SEIZURE; SWEDEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; COMMUNITY HEALTH PLANNING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SWEDEN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65549100191     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2008.01726.x     Document Type: Article

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