Ethosuximide in childhood absence epilepsy - Older and better

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 362, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 843-845

  Vining, Eileen P G ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHOSUXIMIDE; LAMOTRIGINE; VALPROIC ACID; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; TRIAZINE DERIVATIVE;

ABSENCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; EDITORIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CHILD; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; GRAND MAL EPILEPSY; NOTE;

ANTICONVULSANTS; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; EPILEPSY, TONIC-CLONIC; ETHOSUXIMIDE; HUMANS; TRIAZINES; VALPROIC ACID;

EID: 77649292714     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe0911874     Document Type: Editorial

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