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Screening of the Epileptic Patient - Is it worth the trouble?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2015

Robert H.A. Haslam  and
Gideon Koren
Robert H.A. Haslam
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatrics and the Division of Clincial Pharmacology & Toxicology, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario
Gideon Koren
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatrics and the Division of Clincial Pharmacology & Toxicology, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario
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Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , August 1989 , pp. 363 - 364
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Neurological Sciences Federation 1989

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