Diagnosis and management of childhood epilepsy

Current Problems in Pediatric and Adolescent Health Care

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 3-17

  Tolaymat, Abdullah ^a   Nayak, Anuranjita ^a   Geyer, James D ^b,c   Geyer, Sydney K ^b,c   Carney, Paul R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^c Alabama Neurology and Sleep Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; ATKINS DIET; ATONIC SEIZURE; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; BENIGN NEONATAL CONVULSION; CHILDHOOD ABSENCE EPILEPSY; CLONIC SEIZURE; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; DIET THERAPY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FRONTAL LOBE EPILEPSY; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; GLYCEMIC INDEX; HUMAN; IMPLANTED VAGUS NERVE STIMULATOR; INFANTILE SPASM; KETOGENIC DIET; LANDAU KLEFFNER SYNDROME; LENNOX GASTAUT SYNDROME; LOCALIZATION RELATED EPILEPSY; MONOTHERAPY; MYOCLONIC ASTATIC EPILEPSY; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; NAUSEA; OCCIPITAL LOBE EPILEPSY; PARIETAL LOBE EPILEPSY; PATIENT CARE; PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); POLYPHARMACY; ROLANDIC EPILEPSY; SEVERE MYOCLONIC EPILEPSY IN INFANCY; SIMPLE PARTIAL SEIZURE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT REFUSAL; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; CHILD; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG MONITORING; EPILEPSY; PROCEDURES; SEIZURES, FEBRILE;

ANTICONVULSANTS; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DRUG MONITORING; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; SEIZURES, FEBRILE;

EID: 84923346263     PISSN: 15385442     EISSN: 15383199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cppeds.2014.12.002     Document Type: Review

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