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Epilepsy monitoring units in Saudi Arabia:

Where do we stand compared to developed countries?

Bandar N. Aljafen, Saud M. Alfayez, Mohammed H. Alanazy, Naael Alazwary, Sama M. Alohali and Taim Muayqil
Neurosciences Journal July 2018, 23 (3) 244-249; DOI: https://doi.org/10.17712/nsj.2018.3.20170412
Bandar N. Aljafen
From the College of Medicine (Aljafen, Alfayez, Alanazy, Alohali, Muayqil) King Saud University, and from the Security Forces Hospital (Alazwary), Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Saud M. Alfayez
From the College of Medicine (Aljafen, Alfayez, Alanazy, Alohali, Muayqil) King Saud University, and from the Security Forces Hospital (Alazwary), Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Mohammed H. Alanazy
From the College of Medicine (Aljafen, Alfayez, Alanazy, Alohali, Muayqil) King Saud University, and from the Security Forces Hospital (Alazwary), Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Naael Alazwary
From the College of Medicine (Aljafen, Alfayez, Alanazy, Alohali, Muayqil) King Saud University, and from the Security Forces Hospital (Alazwary), Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Sama M. Alohali
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Taim Muayqil
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vol. 23 no. 3 244-249
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.17712/nsj.2018.3.20170412
PubMed 
30008001

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Neurosciences Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3183
History 
  • Received August 29, 2017
  • Accepted April 11, 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.

Author Information

  1. Bandar N. Aljafen, MD⇑,
  2. Saud M. Alfayez, MBBS,
  3. Mohammed H. Alanazy, MD,
  4. Naael Alazwary, MD,
  5. Sama M. Alohali, MBBS and
  6. Taim Muayqil, MBBS
  1. From the College of Medicine (Aljafen, Alfayez, Alanazy, Alohali, Muayqil) King Saud University, and from the Security Forces Hospital (Alazwary), Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Bandar N. Aljafen, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: bandaraljafen{at}gmail.com
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Neurosciences Journal Jul 2018, 23 (3) 244-249; DOI: 10.17712/nsj.2018.3.20170412

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