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Oxcarbazepine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2010

Philip N. Patsalos  and
Blaise F. D. Bourgeois
Philip N. Patsalos
Affiliation:
Chalfont Centre for Epilepsy, Buckinghamshire, UK
Blaise F. D. Bourgeois
Affiliation:
Harvard Medical School, Boston
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The Epilepsy Prescriber's Guide to Antiepileptic Drugs , pp. 163 - 172
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010

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