Do seizures in children cause intellectual deterioration.
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CAUSES OF INTRACTABLE SEIZURES IN A SURVEY OF 10,000 EPILEPTIC CHILDREN
Although treated properly for epilepsy, a number of epileptic children have intractable seizures and about 5-10 per cent of them do not respond to anti -epileptic drugs. In the years 1986-1996 about 10,000 epileptic patients were treated in the Children's Medical Center in Tehran. A retrospective study of their medical records revealed that 41 of them had intractable seizures. I Of these 4...
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Indian journal of pediatrics
دوره 53 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1986