Pregnancy treatment guidelines: Throwing the baby out with the bath water: Letters/Commentary

Epilepsia

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2172-

  Somerville, Ernest R ^a   Cook, Mark J ^b   O'Brien, Terence J ^c  

^a PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; VALPROIC ACID;

BABY; BATH; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EPILEPSY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; LETTER; LOW DRUG DOSE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; TERATOGENESIS;

ABNORMALITIES, DRUG-INDUCED; ANTICONVULSANTS; CARBAMAZEPINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; MYOCLONIC EPILEPSY, JUVENILE; PREGNANCY; VALPROIC ACID;

EID: 69149098361     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2009.02262.x     Document Type: Letter

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