A 6-year-old child with vacant episodes and unilateral convulsions

Lancet

Volumn 352, Issue 9142, 1998, Pages 1750-

  Burgner, David ^a   McDonald, Denise ^a   Watson, Michael ^a   Pike, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLONIC SEIZURE; FEMALE; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS;

EID: 0032576356     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(98)09176-4     Document Type: Article

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