Acute symptomatic seizures - Should we retain the term?

Epilepsia

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 722-723

  Shorvon, Simon ^a   Guerrini, Renzo ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROSCIENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE SYMPTOMATIC SEIZURE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFECTION; BRAIN METABOLISM; CONTUSION; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; EPILEPSY; FEVER; GENE MUTATION; HEAD INJURY; HEREDITY; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOTENSION; NOMENCLATURE; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SEIZURE THRESHOLD; STROKE;

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; SEIZURES; SYNDROME; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 77951660981     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2010.02501.x     Document Type: Note

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