Journal Club: Pretreatment EEG in childhood absence epilepsy
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EEG in childhood absence epilepsy
UNLABELLED We performed a longitudinal clinico-electroencephalographic study of 23 children who were diagnosed as having absence epilepsy on their initial visits to our facility and we analysed those factors which lead to an unfavourable prognosis. SUBJECTS AND METHODS We divided the 23 patients into three groups according to their clinical courses: Group A: eight patients who responded well ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Neurology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0028-3878,1526-632X
DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0000000000000380