Ataxia in Institutionalized Patients with Epilepsy
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Ataxia in institutionalized patients with epilepsy.
Fifty-four per cent of 41 chronically institutionalized adult patients with epilepsy had ataxia of gait (wide mean stride width). None of the following correlated with stride width: serum phenytoin, previous phenytoin toxicity, seizure frequency, or status epilepticus. Seventeen of the 41 patients had computed tomographic head scans. Patients with radiological evidence of cerebellar atrophy had...
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences / Journal Canadien des Sciences Neurologiques
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0317-1671,2057-0155
DOI: 10.1017/s0317167100041238