The Diagnosis of Epilepsies

Overview

Journal J R Coll Physicians Lond

Specialty General Medicine

Date 1996 Mar 1

PMID 8709057

Citations 2

Authors

R A Grunewald

C P Panayiotopoulos

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Abstract

Vague labels such as "epilepsy', "grand mal' or "seizures' are detrimental to patient care, and should be universally abandoned in favour of the syndromic diagnosis of epilepsies.

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