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Epidemiological study of epilepsy from a tertiary care hospital in kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Rizwana Shahid, Saima Nazish, Azra Zafar, Danah Aljafaari, Majed Alabdali, Noman Ishaque, Bayan A. Alzahrani and Fahad A. Alkhamis
Neurosciences Journal July 2018, 23 (3) 223-226; DOI: https://doi.org/10.17712/nsj.2018.3.20180062
Rizwana Shahid
From the Department of Neurology (Shahid, Nazish, Zafar, Aljaffari, Alabdali, Ishaque, Alkhamis), King Fahad Hospital of the University, and from Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (Alzahrani), Alkhobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Saima Nazish
From the Department of Neurology (Shahid, Nazish, Zafar, Aljaffari, Alabdali, Ishaque, Alkhamis), King Fahad Hospital of the University, and from Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (Alzahrani), Alkhobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Azra Zafar
From the Department of Neurology (Shahid, Nazish, Zafar, Aljaffari, Alabdali, Ishaque, Alkhamis), King Fahad Hospital of the University, and from Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (Alzahrani), Alkhobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Danah Aljafaari
From the Department of Neurology (Shahid, Nazish, Zafar, Aljaffari, Alabdali, Ishaque, Alkhamis), King Fahad Hospital of the University, and from Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (Alzahrani), Alkhobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Majed Alabdali
From the Department of Neurology (Shahid, Nazish, Zafar, Aljaffari, Alabdali, Ishaque, Alkhamis), King Fahad Hospital of the University, and from Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (Alzahrani), Alkhobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Noman Ishaque
From the Department of Neurology (Shahid, Nazish, Zafar, Aljaffari, Alabdali, Ishaque, Alkhamis), King Fahad Hospital of the University, and from Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (Alzahrani), Alkhobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Bayan A. Alzahrani
From the Department of Neurology (Shahid, Nazish, Zafar, Aljaffari, Alabdali, Ishaque, Alkhamis), King Fahad Hospital of the University, and from Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (Alzahrani), Alkhobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Fahad A. Alkhamis
From the Department of Neurology (Shahid, Nazish, Zafar, Aljaffari, Alabdali, Ishaque, Alkhamis), King Fahad Hospital of the University, and from Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (Alzahrani), Alkhobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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vol. 23 no. 3 223-226
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.17712/nsj.2018.3.20180062
PubMed 
30007998

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1658-3183
History 
  • Received February 6, 2018
  • Accepted May 2, 2018
  • Published online November 13, 2020.

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Copyright: © Neurosciences Neurosciences is an Open Access journal and articles published are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (CC BY-NC). Readers may copy, distribute, and display the work for non-commercial purposes with the proper citation of the original work.

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  1. Rizwana Shahid, MBBS, FCPS⇑,
  2. Saima Nazish, MBBS, FCPS,
  3. Azra Zafar, MBBS, FCPS,
  4. Danah Aljafaari, MD, FRCPC,
  5. Majed Alabdali, MD, FRCPC,
  6. Noman Ishaque, MBBS, FCPS,
  7. Bayan A. Alzahrani, Medical student and
  8. Fahad A. Alkhamis, MD, UOD
  1. From the Department of Neurology (Shahid, Nazish, Zafar, Aljaffari, Alabdali, Ishaque, Alkhamis), King Fahad Hospital of the University, and from Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (Alzahrani), Alkhobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Rizwana Shahid, Department of Neurology, College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Alkhobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: rshahid{at}iau.edu.sa ORICID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0258-4658
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Neurosciences Journal Jul 2018, 23 (3) 223-226; DOI: 10.17712/nsj.2018.3.20180062
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