Epilepsies with onset in the first year of life: Severe myoclonic epilepsy in infancy (Dravet syndrome)

Epilepsy in Children, 2E

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 157-160

  Fejerman, Natalio ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE PEDIATRÍA PROF DR JUAN P GARRAHAN   (Argentina)

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