Benign adult familial myoclonic epilepsy (BAFME) with night blindness

Yasuhiro Manabe1, Hisashi Narai, Hitoshi Warita

  • 1Department of Neurology, Graduate School of Medicine and Dentistry, Okayama University, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, Okayama 700-8558, Japan. manabe@cc.okayama-u.ac.jp

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|May 25, 2002
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