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Electromagnetic Source Imaging in Presurgical Evaluation of Children with Drug-Resistant Epilepsy
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Preoperative evaluation in children for epilepsy surgery
Michael Duchowny1, J Helen Cross
1University of Miami Leonard Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA. michael.duchowny@mch.com
Handbook of Clinical Neurology
|September 4, 2012
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