Long-term mortality in childhood-onset epilepsy

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 363, Issue 26, 2010, Pages 2522-2529

  Sillanpää, Matti ^a   Shinnar, Shlomo ^b  

^a TURKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROWNING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEWBORN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REMISSION; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; SUDDEN DEATH; SYMPTOMATIC EPILEPSY; TIME OF DEATH;

EID: 78650598317     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa0911610     Document Type: Article

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