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Prognostic Factors for the Occurrence of Posttraumatic Epilepsy

1983; American Medical Association; Volume: 40; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1001/archneur.1983.04050010027006

1538-3687

George H. Weiss, Dennis M. Feeney, William F. Caveness, Louise Dillon, J. Philip Kistler, J.P. Mohr, Berkley L. Rish,

History of Medical Practice

• We studied the occurrence of posttraumatic seizures in 378 head-injured Vietnam veterans and devised a simple mathematical formula to describe the onset of first fits after injury. We tabulated the results so that practitioners can use them to assess prognosis calculation.