Seizures and Epilepsy in Adolescents and Adults

Disease-a-Month

Volumn 58, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 708-729

  Dobrin, Sofia ^a  

^a NORTHSHORE UNIVERSITY HEALTHSYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLOBAZAM; ETHOSUXIMIDE; ETIRACETAM; FELBAMATE; GABAPENTIN; HARKOSERIDE; LAMOTRIGINE; OXCARBAZEPINE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; PREGABALIN; RETIGABINE; RUFINAMIDE; TIAGABINE; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID; VIGABATRIN; ZONISAMIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGITATION; ALOPECIA; ANEMIA; ANOREXIA; ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD DYSCRASIA; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CEREBELLUM ATROPHY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DROWSINESS; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DUPUYTREN CONTRACTURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; GLAUCOMA; GUM HYPERTROPHY; HEADACHE; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHY; HYPONATREMIA; INCIDENCE; INSOMNIA; LEUKOPENIA; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MIGRAINE; NAUSEA; NEPHROLITHIASIS; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OLIGOHIDROSIS; PANCREATITIS; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PRESCRIPTION; RASH; SEDATION; SEIZURE; SIDE EFFECT; SOMNOLENCE; SWEAT GLAND DISEASE; TERATOGENESIS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREMOR; WEIGHT GAIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; SEIZURES;

EID: 84869009437     PISSN: 00115029     EISSN: 15578194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.disamonth.2012.08.011     Document Type: Article

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