Diagnostic Yield of Continuous Video EEG for Neonatal Seizures
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Diagnostic Yield of Continuous Video EEG for Neonatal Seizures.
Investigators from the University of California, San Francisco studied the yield of continuous video EEG (vEEG) in diagnosing electrographic seizures in their neonatal intensive care unit.
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عنوان ژورنال: Pediatric Neurology Briefs
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2166-6482,1043-3155
DOI: 10.15844/pedneurbriefs-29-8-6