Risk of Recurrent Seizures after Two Unprovoked Seizures
- 12 February 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 338 (7) , 429-434
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199802123380704
Abstract
Patients with a single unprovoked seizure have about a 35 percent risk of recurrence in the subsequent five years. We studied the risk of recurrence after two unprovoked seizures.Keywords
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