Seizures and epilepsy in cancer patients

Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 60-67

  Avila, Edward K ^a   Graber, Jerome ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Antiepileptic drugs; Cancer; Non convulsive status epilepticus; Seizures

Indexed keywords

9 AMINOCAMPTOTHECIN; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; CISPLATIN; DOXORUBICIN; ETIRACETAM; ETOPOSIDE; GABAPENTIN; HARKOSERIDE; LAMOTRIGINE; METHOTREXATE; NITROSOUREA; NITROSOUREA DERIVATIVE; OXCARBAZEPINE; PACLITAXEL; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; PREDNISONE; PREGABALIN; PROCARBAZINE; TEMOZOLOMIDE; TENIPOSIDE; THIOTEPA; TOPIRAMATE; UNINDEXED DRUG; VALPROIC ACID; VINBLASTINE; VINCRISTINE; ZONISAMIDE;

ADD ON THERAPY; ADJUVANT THERAPY; ANEMIA; ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ASTROCYTOMA; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GRADING; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COORDINATION DISORDER; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE FREE INTERVAL; DROWSINESS; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG PROTEIN BINDING; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC STATE; FATIGUE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GLIOMA; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INAPPROPRIATE VASOPRESSIN SECRETION; INCIDENCE; INSOMNIA; IRRITABILITY; LEUKOCYTE ADHERENCE INHIBITION; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MENTAL INSTABILITY; MOOD DISORDER; NAUSEA; NEPHROLITHIASIS; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SHOULDER HAND SYNDROME; SIDE EFFECT; SOMNOLENCE; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION INHIBITION; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VOMITING;

ANTICONVULSANTS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; SEIZURES;

EID: 77649182172     PISSN: 15284042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11910-009-0080-z     Document Type: Review

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