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A survey of epilepsy surgery in India

Ramshekhar N Menon1, Kurupath Radhakrishnan2

  • 1Department of Neurology, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum, India.

Seizure
|March 25, 2015
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Keywords:
Drug resistant epilepsyEpilepsy surgeryIndiaTemporal trends

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