Risk of seizure recurrence in patients of new-onset partial seizure having a solitary cysticercus granuloma of brain or normal neuroimaging

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 301, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 21-26

  Sharma, Pawan ^a   Garg, Ravindra Kumar ^a   Verma, Rajesh ^a   Singh, Maneesh Kumar ^a   Shukla, Rakesh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUCKNOW   (India)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Neurocysticercosis; Partial seizures; Solitary cysticercus granuloma; Symptomatic epilepsy

Indexed keywords

CLOBAZAM; OXCARBAZEPINE; PHENYTOIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRANULOMA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; SOLITARY CYSTICERCUS GRANULOMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTICONVULSANTS; CARBAMAZEPINE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; FEMALE; GRANULOMA; HEADACHE; HUMANS; INDIA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78751569905     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2010.11.013     Document Type: Article

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