Populational frequency of epilepsy;Freqüência populacional da epilepsia

Revista Brasileira de Neurologia

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 3-7

  Da Mota Gomes, Marleide ^a,b  

^a Inst de Neurologia Deolindo Couto   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Epilepsy

Indexed keywords

EID: 2442499220     PISSN: 01018469     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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