Stopping Antiepileptic Drugs after Successful Surgery: What Do We Know? and What Do We Still Need to Learn?

Epilepsia

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 101-102

  Berg, Anne T ^a  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; EDITORIAL; EPILEPSY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; RECURRENT DISEASE; RELAPSE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

ANTICONVULSANTS; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; RECURRENCE;

EID: 0842268315     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0013-9580.2004.52703.x     Document Type: Editorial

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