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Case Reports
. 2020 Aug;131(8):2062-2064.
doi: 10.1016/j.clinph.2020.05.011. Epub 2020 May 22.

Pay more attention to EEG in COVID-19 pandemic

M Flamand  1 , A Perron  2 , Y Buron  1 , W Szurhaj  3
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Case Reports

Pay more attention to EEG in COVID-19 pandemic

M Flamand et al. Clin Neurophysiol. 2020 Aug.
No abstract available

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Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Figures

Fig. 1a
Fig. 1a
EEG recording on day 6 after admission. Transverse bipolar montage. Bandpass: 0.53–70 Hz. 50-Hz notch filter. Sensitivity 10 µV/mm. Note the repetitive epileptiform discharges mostly in the bilateral frontal areas, over a slowing of the background activity.
Fig. 1b
Fig. 1b
EEG recording on day 21 after admission. Transverse bipolar montage. Bandpass: 0.53–70 Hz. 50-Hz notch filter. Sensitivity 10 µV/mm. Note the periodic triphasic waves with short periods (1–1.5 s) over a worsened background activity.
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