Deciding When Less Is More: The Crossroads of Withdrawing Antiepileptic Drugs

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Naymee Velez Ruiz. Epilepsy Curr. 2018 Jan-Feb.

. 2018 Jan-Feb;18(1):21-23.

doi: 10.5698/1535-7597.18.1.21.

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