Chronic repetitive nonprogressive epilepsia partialis continua due to rheumatoid meningitis
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Chronic repetitive nonprogressive epilepsia partialis continua due to rheumatoid meningitis
David Krysl *, Josef Zamecnik , Ladislav Senolt , Petr Marusic a Department of Neurology, 2nd Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, University Hospital Motol, Prague, Czech Republic Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, 2nd Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, University Hospital Motol, Prague, Czech Republic c Institute of Rheumatology and 1st Faculty of Me...
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عنوان ژورنال: Seizure
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1059-1311
DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2012.10.006