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Outcome of children with first febrile seizure - a local cohort study of 565 cases

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the clinical profile and outcome of children admitted for first febrile seizure (FS) in Hong Kong. METHODS: A retrospective study was performed for all children admitted to Queen Mary Hospital with first episode of FS for during a 5 years period (March 1998 - March 2003) was conducted. FS is defined as “an event in a neurologically healthy infant or child aged 6 months to 5 years, associated with fever >38ΟC but without evidence of intracranial infection or a defined cause and with no …published_or_final_versio

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