Early poststroke seizures: Is it time for prospective treatment trials?

Neurology

Volumn 77, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 1776-1778

  Herman, Susan T ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN STEM INFARCTION; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; EDITORIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; POSTSTROKE SEIZURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; STROKE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

EID: 82955228978     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e31823b4e73     Document Type: Editorial

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