Antiepileptic treatment of children: Advice to the doctor treating the disease;Antiepileptisk behandling af børn: 12 Gode råd til den behandlende læge

Ugeskrift for Laeger

Volumn 166, Issue 44, 2004, Pages 3932-3934

  Balslev, Thomas ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLOBAZAM; ETHOSUXIMIDE; HYDROCORTISONE; LAMOTRIGINE; OXCARBAZEPINE; PREDNISONE; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID; VIGABATRIN;

ABSENCE; ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; HAPPY PUPPET SYNDROME; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANTILE SPASM; PEDIATRICIAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROGNOSIS; ROLANDIC EPILEPSY; SEIZURE; SHORT SURVEY; SIDE EFFECT; SYNDROME DELINEATION;

ANTICONVULSANTS; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EPILEPSY; EPILEPSY, ROLANDIC; HUMANS; INFANT; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; RECURRENCE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 7544220211     PISSN: 00415782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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