Febrile seizures: Recent developments and unanswered questions

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2011-2017

  Pavlidou, Efterpi ^a,b   Hagel, Christian ^a,b   Panteliadis, Christos ^a,b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Febrile seizures; Recurrence risk; Review; Therapy

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIPYRETIC AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; DIAZEPAM; LORAZEPAM; MIDAZOLAM; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; VALPROIC ACID;

BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FEVER; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FOLLOW UP; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HUMAN; IRRITABILITY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SIDE EFFECT; SOMNOLENCE; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

CHILD; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; SEIZURES, FEBRILE;

EID: 84888204397     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: 14330350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-013-2224-3     Document Type: Review

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