Anticonvulsant drugs, growth, and development.
Open Access
- 1 June 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Archives of Disease in Childhood
- Vol. 62 (6) , 615-617
- https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.62.6.615
Abstract
Height and stage of puberty of 67 children with epilepsy were measured before beginning treatment with anticonvulsant drugs and annually to a maximum five years' treatment. Blood concentrations of the drugs used (phenytoin, sodium valproate, carbamazepine, ethosuximide, and phenobarbitone) were monitored throughout. No significant deviation in growth patterns was detected.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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