Epilepsy due to neurocyticercosis;Epilepsia secundaria a neurocisticercosis

Revista Ecuatoriana de Neurologia

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 12-17

  Del Brutto, Oscar H ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL LUIS VERNAZA   (Ecuador)

^b NONE   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICESTODAL AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; HUMAN; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; REVIEW;

EID: 0029949086     PISSN: 10198113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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