Time to treatment predicts seizure outcome in a high-treatment gap epilepsy population
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Epilepsy
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2213-6320,2213-6339
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijep.2015.09.001