Treatment of epilepsy: The ketogenic diet

Epilepsy in Children, 2E

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 405-408

  Vining, Eileen P G ^a   Kossoff, Eric H ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

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