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[Conservative and surgical treatment of patients with resistant epilepsy]

S A Gromov1, N E Ivanova2, V R Kasumov2

  • 1Bekhterev St. Petersburg Psychoneurological Research Institute, St. Petersburg.

Zhurnal Nevrologii I Psikhiatrii Imeni S.S. Korsakova
|September 11, 2015
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