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. 1993 Jan;56(1):2–5. doi: 10.1136/jnnp.56.1.2

Benign childhood partial epilepsies: benign childhood seizure susceptibility syndromes.

C P Panayiotopoulos
PMCID: PMC1014755  PMID: 8429319

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