Video-EEG Recordings in Idiopathic Generalized Epilepsy, including Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy

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عنوان ژورنال: Epilepsia

سال: 2006

ISSN: 0013-9580,1528-1167

DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2006.00484_7.x