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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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Neurosciences Journal Jul 2018, 23 (3) 223-226; DOI: 10.17712/nsj.2018.3.20180062

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Neurosciences Journal Jul 2018, 23 (3) 223-226; DOI: 10.17712/nsj.2018.3.20180062
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