Epilepsy with onset at over 50 years of age: Clinical and electroencephalographic characteristics;Epilepsia com início após os 50 anos de idade: Características clínicas e eletrencefalográficas

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria

Volumn 70, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 780-785

  Tedrus, Glória Maria Almeida Souza ^a   Fonseca, Lineu Corrêa ^a   Nogueira Junior, Elizardo ^a   Pazetto, Daniele ^a  

^a PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DE CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Aged; Electroencephalography; Epilepsy; Epileptic seizures

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EEG ABNORMALITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; SYMPTOMATIC EPILEPSY; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

EID: 84867874164     PISSN: 0004282X     EISSN: 16784227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0004-282X2012001000006     Document Type: Article

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