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Selim Benbadis1, Sandra Helmers2, Lawrence Hirsch2
1From the Departments of Neurology (S.B.) and Neurosurgery (F.L.V.), University of South Florida, Tampa; the Department of Neurology (S.H.), Emory University, Atlanta, GA; the Yale Comprehensive Epilepsy Center (L.H.), Yale University, New Haven, CT; the Department of Neurology (J.S.), Mayo Clinic Arizona, Phoenix; and the University of Tennessee (J.W.), Knoxville. sbenbadi@health.usf.edu.
Neurology
|August 27, 2014
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