Editorial: The tragedy of over-read EEGs and wrong diagnoses of epilepsy

Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 343-346

  Benbadis, Selim R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE;

DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIZZINESS; EDITORIAL; EEG ABNORMALITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; LOBECTOMY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NEUROIMAGING; SEIZURE; AGED; CASE REPORT; CHILD; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS;

AGED; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 77649299337     PISSN: 14737175     EISSN: 17448360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/ern.09.157     Document Type: Editorial

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