Pediatric Neurology Briefs (Feb 2011)

Long-Term Mortality in Childhood-Onset Epilepsy

  • J Gordon Millichap

DOI
https://doi.org/10.15844/pedneurbriefs-25-2-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 25, no. 2
pp. 9 – 10

Abstract

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Seizure outcomes and mortality in a Finnish population-based cohort of 245 children diagnosed with epilepsy in 1964 were prospectively followed for 40 years (range, 2 to 53) at the Departments of Pediatric Neurology and Public Health, Turku University Hospital, Finland, and the Comprehensive Epilepsy Management Center, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY.

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