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Unnecessary polypharmacy for epilepsy.
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conclusions administration of aeds in general and levetiracetam in particular should be based on attention to pharmacokinetic behavior in terms of monotherapy or polypharmacy. case presentation two cases were studied, one patient was a 32-year-old male and the other was a 14-year-old female. the key words relevant to search topics were surveyed using pubmed (united states national library of me...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1977
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.1.6077.1635