Occipital seizures induced by hyperglycemia: A case report and review of literature

Seizure

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 382-385

  Moien Afshari, Farzad ^a   Téllez Zenteno, José F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Hyperglycemia; Occipital seizures

Indexed keywords

INSULIN;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; HUMANS; HYPERGLYCEMIA; MALE;

EID: 67349139102     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2008.12.001     Document Type: Article

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