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Ethanol Abuse After a Right Temporal Lobe Resection for Intractable Epilepsy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2014

Farzad Moien-Afshari
Affiliation:
Royal University Hospital, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
José F. Téllez-Zenteno
Affiliation:
Royal University Hospital, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
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Abstract

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Type
Letters to the Editor
Copyright
Copyright © The Canadian Journal of Neurological 2011

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