Risk factors for late-onset seizures related to cerebral contusions in adults with a moderate traumatic brain injury

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 113, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 469-471

  De Reuck, Jacques ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Alcohol abuse; Cerebral contusions; Epilepsy; Outcome; Seizure types; Topography; Vascular risk factors

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CARBAMAZEPINE; VALPROIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN CONTUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FOLLOW UP; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INJURY SEVERITY; LATE ONSET SEIZURE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RANKIN SCALE; RECURRENCE RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; SMOKING; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANTICONVULSANTS; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; CARBAMAZEPINE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEIZURES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VALPROIC ACID;

EID: 79958095478     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: 18726968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2011.02.004     Document Type: Article

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