Evaluating the epilepsy and oncological outcomes of pediatric brain tumors causing seizures

Affiliations

¹ 1 Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada ; 2 Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA ; 3 Department of Neurosurgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Shelly Wang et al. Transl Pediatr. 2016 Jan.

. 2016 Jan;5(1):9-11.

doi: 10.3978/j.issn.2224-4336.2015.12.04.

¹ 1 Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada ; 2 Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA ; 3 Department of Neurosurgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of Interest: The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

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