منابع مشابه
Prognosis of partial epilepsy.
The prognosis of partial epilepsy in childhood (excluding cases of benign partial epilepsy) was studied; the average follow up period was 7.4 years. Improvement rate of seizure status was 82.3%. We studied favourable prognostic factors and found that those most often associated with seizure improvement were familial convulsions and idiopathic forms, no generalised seizures before partial onset,...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Disease in Childhood
سال: 1988
ISSN: 0003-9888,1468-2044
DOI: 10.1136/adc.63.10.1192