Are the dichotomies generalized versus focal epilepsies and idiopathic versus symptomatic epilepsies still valid in modern epileptology?

Epilepsia

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1336-1343

  Lüders, Hans O ^a   Turnbull, John ^a   Kaffashi, Farhad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Dichotomies; Epilepsy classification; Epileptic syndromes; Epileptogenicity; System epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; PENTETRAZOLE;

BRAIN REGION; BRAIN TUMOR; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ELECTRIC SHOCK; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPILEPTIC STATE; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE THRESHOLD; SYMPTOMATIC EPILEPSY; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ANTICONVULSANTS; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; HUMANS; SEIZURES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SYNDROME;

EID: 66849101943     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2009.02074.x     Document Type: Note

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