Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy: Clinical characteristics, standard and quantitative electroencephalography analyses

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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Pediatric Neurosciences

سال: 2013

ISSN: 1817-1745

DOI: 10.4103/1817-1745.117835