First-ever, door-to-door cross-sectional representative study in Prey Veng province (Cambodia)

Epilepsia

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1382-1387

  Preux, Pierre Marie ^a   Chea, Kimly ^b   Chamroeun, Hun ^b,c   Bhalla, Devender ^a   Vannareth, Mey ^b   Huc, Pierre ^a   Samleng, Chan ^b,c   Cayreyre, Mireille ^d   Gérard, Daniel ^d   Dumas, Michel ^a   Oum, Sophal ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LIMOGES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Cambodia)

^c Calmette Hospital   (Cambodia)

^d SANOFI   (France)

Author keywords

Cambodia; Epidemiology; Epilepsy; Prevalence

Indexed keywords

ABSENCE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CAMBODIA; CHILD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SCREENING; SPIKE; SPIKE WAVE; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; CAMBODIA; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 79960901248     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2011.03102.x     Document Type: Article

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