Intractable Epilepsy in a Population-Based Series of Mentally Retarded Children
✍ Scribed by Ulf Steffenburg; Anders Hedström; Anne Lindroth; Lars-Martin Wiklund; Gudrun Hagberg; Mårten Kyllerman
- Book ID
- 109106529
- Publisher
- Wiley (Blackwell Publishing)
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 946 KB
- Volume
- 39
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0013-9580
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