Reasons for uncontrolled seizures in adults; The impact of pseudointractability

Seizure

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 271-274

  Asadi Pooya, Ali A ^a,b,c   Emami, Mehrdad ^a   Ashjazadeh, Nahid ^a,b   Nikseresht, Alireza ^b   Shariat, Abdolhamid ^b   Petramfar, Peyman ^b   Yousefipour, Gholamali ^b   Borhani Haghighi, Afshin ^b   Izadi, Sadegh ^b   Rahimi Jaberi, Abbas ^b  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Adults; Medically refractory Epilepsy; Pseudointractability; Uncontrolled seizures

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOINTRACTABILITY; SEIZURE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTICONVULSANTS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84876069115     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: 15322688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2013.01.010     Document Type: Article

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