Intractable Childhood Epilepsy: Choosing Between the Treatments

Seminars in Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 145-149

  Kossoff, Eric H ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; BRIVARACETAM; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLOBAZAM; CLORAZEPATE; CORTICOSTEROID; HUPERZINE A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PERAMPANEL; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; STIRIPENTOL; VIGABATRIN;

ABSENCE; CHILD; DRUG MEGADOSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANTILE SPASM; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; KETOGENIC DIET; NEUROIMAGING; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; POLYPHARMACY; REVIEW; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; EPILEPSY; HUMANS;

EID: 80655128389     PISSN: 10719091     EISSN: 15580776     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spen.2011.06.001     Document Type: Review

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