Inferences from a community study about non-epileptic events

OBJECTIVE: To demonstrate the epidemiological importance of the different types of non-epileptic events (NEE) in a low-income urban community. METHOD: The patients suspected of having epilepsy, who were detected in the first phase (screening one) of this prevalence study, were interviewed by a neuro...

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Main Authors: Marleide da Mota Gomes, Leandro Albuquerque Lemgruber Kropf, Erica da Silva van Beeck, Ivan Luiz de Vasconcellos Figueira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Academia Brasileira de Neurologia (ABNEURO) 2002-09-01
Series:Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2002000500005&tlng=en