Traumatic brain injury: Risks of epilepsy and implications for medicolegal assessment

Epilepsia

Volumn 53, Issue SUPPL. 4, 2012, Pages 43-47

  Christensen, Jakob ^a,b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Antiepileptic drugs; Early seizures; Epidemiology; Prevention; Treatment

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; MAGNESIUM; PHENYTOIN; VALPROIC ACID;

AIRPLANE PILOT; AMNESIA; BRAIN HEMATOMA; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DRIVER; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FALLING; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OUTPATIENT CARE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SKULL FRACTURE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TRAUMATIC EPILEPSY;

ANTICONVULSANTS; BRAIN INJURIES; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; LEGISLATION, MEDICAL; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEIZURES;

EID: 84865766704     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2012.03612.x     Document Type: Review

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