Difficulties in diagnosis of solitary and sporadic epileptic seizures

Neuroendocrinology Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 814-817

  Kollar, Branislav ^a   Klobucnikova, Katarína ^a   Fecikova, Anna ^a   Borovska, Jana ^a  

^a Faculty of Medicine of Comenius University and University Hospital Bratislava   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

CT; EEG; Epilepsy; MRI; Solitary epileptic seizure

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC STATE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SOLITARY EPILEPTIC SEIZURE; SPORADIC EPILEPTIC SEIZURE;

EID: 79751522820     PISSN: 0172780X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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