Prognosticating acute symptomatic seizures using two different seizure outcomes

Epilepsia

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1570-1579

  Leung, Howan ^a   Man, Celeste B L ^a   Hui, Andrew C F ^a   Kwan, Patrick ^a   Wong, Ka S ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Acute symptomatic seizure; First seizure; Prognosis; Provoked seizure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SYMPTOMATIC EPILEPSY; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURES; STATUS EPILEPTICUS; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEIZURES; STATUS EPILEPTICUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955329137     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2009.02409.x     Document Type: Article

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