Predictors of unintended pregnancy in women with epilepsy

Neurology

Volumn 88, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 728-733

  Herzog, Andrew G ^a   Mandle, Hannah B ^a   Cahill, Kaitlyn E ^a   Fowler, Kristen M ^a   Hauser, W Allen ^b  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLOBAZAM; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; GABAPENTIN; GESTAGEN; LACOSAMIDE; LAMOTRIGINE; LEVETIRACETAM; OXCARBAZEPINE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; PREGABALIN; TIAGABINE; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID; ZONISAMIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONCEPTION; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HORMONAL CONTRACEPTION; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; UNPLANNED PREGNANCY; ADOLESCENT; AGE; ANCESTRY GROUP; CONTRACEPTION; INTERNET; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANTICONVULSANTS; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CONTRACEPTION; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENTS, FEMALE; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, UNPLANNED; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85013466857     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000003637     Document Type: Article

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