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Pediatric epilepsy: diagnosis and therapy, 2nd edition
  1. RICHARD O ROBINSON

    https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.70.6.821p

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      Pediatric epilepsy: diagnosis and therapy, 2nd edition. Edited byjohn m pellock, w edwin dodson, and blaise f d bourgeois (Pp 688, US$150.00). Published by Demos Medical Publishing, New York, 2001. ISBN 1-888799-30-7.

      The most useful part of this book is an account of each of the anticonvulsant drugs. Concisely summarised is the evidence for efficacy, or lack of it, of each. Included is a section on epilepsy surgery.

      It is approached by a section on general principles, which is a miscellany including (oddly) status epilepticus but also treatment decisions, anticonvulsant profiles, dosage considerations, pharmacokinetics and some treatment decisions. These two sections comprise the “therapy” of the title.

      Preceding that is a section on epilepsy syndromes, including a …

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