Old drugs do the trick in childhood absence epilepsy

Nature Reviews Neurology - Tập 6 Số 8 - Trang 420-421 - 2010
Pasquale Striano1, Carlo Minetti1
1Muscular and Neurodegenerative Diseases Unit, Giannina Gaslini Institute, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy

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