Glioma-related seizures in relation to histopathological subtypes: a report from the glioma international

Shala G Berntsson1, Ryan T Merrell2, E Susan Amirian3

  • 1Department of Neuroscience, Neurology, Uppsala University, 751 85, Uppsala, Sweden. shala.berntsson@neuro.uu.se.

Journal of Neurology
|April 25, 2018
PubMed
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