Epilepsy is both a symptom and a disease: A proposal for a two-tiered classification system

Epilepsia

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1201-1203

  Wong, Michael ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR ALPHA1; SODIUM CHANNEL NAV1.1;

CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EPILEPSY; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GENE MUTATION; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HUMAN; LENNOX GASTAUT SYNDROME; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEUROIMAGING; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SEVERE MYOCLONIC EPILEPSY IN INFANCY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS;

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; RESEARCH REPORT;

EID: 79958817179     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2011.03078.x     Document Type: Note

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