Mesial temporal lobectomy: Post-surgical seizure frequency

Textbook of Epilepsy Surgery

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1221-1235

  Jehi, L ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

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