Prevalence of epilepsy in a cohort of patients with multiple sclerosis

Seizure

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 81-83

  Uribe San Martín, Reinaldo ^a   Ciampi Díaz, Ethel ^a   Suarez Hernández, Felipe ^a   Vásquez Torres, Macarena ^a   Godoy Fernández, Jaime ^a   Cárcamo Rodríguez, Claudia ^a  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Brain atrophy; Electroencephalography; Epilepsy; Magnetic resonance imaging; Multiple sclerosis; Seizure

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BETA INTERFERON; CLOBAZAM; ETIRACETAM; GLATIRAMER; IMMUNOMODULATING AGENT; LAMOTRIGINE; MITOXANTRONE; OXCARBAZEPINE; PHENYTOIN; RITUXIMAB; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

BRAIN ATROPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; SEIZURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84891155681     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: 15322688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2013.09.008     Document Type: Article

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