Is Refractory Epilepsy Preventable?
- 22 April 2002
- Vol. 43 (4) , 437-444
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1528-1157.2002.38501.x
Abstract
Summary: About a third of the patients diagnosed with epilepsy will not be fully controlled with antiepileptic drugs (AEDs), and many of them will have frequent and disabling seizures. These patients...Keywords
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