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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
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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Abstract

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Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Neurological Sciences Federation 1989

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