Pediatric status epilepticus: Should the diagnostic evaluation change?

Neurology

Volumn 74, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 624-625

  Shinnar, Shlomo ^a   Hesdorffer, Dale C ^b  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE DURATION; EDITORIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC STATE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 77649166390     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e3181d0ce5b     Document Type: Editorial

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