Diagnostic usefulness and duration of the inpatient long-term video-EEG monitoring: Findings in patients extensively investigated before the monitoring

Seizure

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 470-473

  Alving, Jørgen ^a   Beniczky, Sándor ^a,b  

^a DANISH EPILEPSY CENTRE   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Diagnostic usefulness; Inpatient long term video EEG monitoring

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; SLEEP DISORDER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INPATIENTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; REFERENCE VALUES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; VIDEO RECORDING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68249128110     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2009.04.005     Document Type: Article

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