Recommendation for a definition of acute symptomatic seizure

Epilepsia

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 671-675

  Beghi, Ettore ^a,i   Carpio, Arturo ^b   Forsgren, Lars ^c   Hesdorffer, Dale C ^d   Malmgren, Kristina ^e   Sander, Josemir W ^f,g   Tomson, Torbjorn ^h   Hauser, W Allen ^d  

^a MARIO NEGRI INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE CUENCA   (Ecuador)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^f UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g STICHTING EPILEPSIE INSTELLINGEN NEDERLAND SEIN   (Netherlands)

^h KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

ⁱ ILAE Commission on Epidemiology

Author keywords

Acute symptomatic seizure; Definition; Epidemiology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN HYPOXIA; BRAIN SURGERY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; HUMAN; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; SYMPTOMATIC EPILEPSY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ACUTE DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; SEIZURES;

EID: 77951664398     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2009.02285.x     Document Type: Article

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