The lifelong course of chronic epilepsy: The Chalfont experience

Brain

Volumn 136, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 3187-3199

  Novy, Jan ^a   Belluzzo, Marco ^a   Caboclo, Luís Otávio ^a,b   Catarino, Claudia B ^a   Yogarajah, Mahinda ^a   Martinian, Lillian ^a   Peacock, Janet L ^c   Bell, Gail S ^a   Koepp, Matthias J ^a   Thom, Maria ^a   Sander, Josemir W ^a,d   Sisodiya, Sanjay M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d STICHTING EPILEPSIE INSTELLINGEN NEDERLAND SEIN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

age; co morbidities; drug resistant epilepsy; mortality; remission; SUDEP

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN STEM; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBELLUM; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; DEATH; DENTATORUBROPALLIDOLUYSIAN ATROPHY; DISEASE COURSE; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC STATE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INSULA; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MESENCEPHALON; MESIAL TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; MORTALITY; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; OUTPATIENT CARE; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PERIVENTRICULAR HETEROTOPIA; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; RESIDENTIAL CARE; SEVERE MYOCLONIC EPILEPSY IN INFANCY; SPINAL CORD; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; SUDDEN DEATH; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; THALAMUS; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

EID: 84884882523     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awt117     Document Type: Article

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