Increase in the number of patients with seizures following the Great East-Japan Earthquake

Epilepsia

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Shibahara, Ichiyo ^a   Osawa, Shin Ichiro ^b   Kon, Hiroyuki ^a   Morita, Takahiro ^a   Nakasato, Nobukazu ^b   Tominaga, Teiji ^b   Narita, Norio ^a  

^a Department of Neurosurgery   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Earthquake; Epilepsy; Nutrition; Stress; Tsunami

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CREATINE KINASE; CREATININE; GLUCOSE; PROTEIN; SODIUM;

ARTICLE; BARTHEL INDEX; BLOOD SAMPLING; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; EARTHQUAKE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NATURAL DISASTER; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE; TSUNAMI; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL;

EARTHQUAKES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES; STROKE; TSUNAMIS;

EID: 84875865154     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/epi.12070     Document Type: Article

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