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The prevalence of seizures in children with developmental delay

Raidah Albaradie, Hafiz Habibullah, Ali Mir, Alaa K. Alshammari, Modhi S. Alajmi, Fatima A. Alsubaie, Reem R. Alsudairi and Shahid Bashir
Neurosciences Journal April 2021, 26 (2) 186-191; DOI: https://doi.org/10.17712/nsj.2021.2.20200106
Raidah Albaradie
From the Department of Pediatric neurology (Albaradie, Habibullah, Mir), Neuroscience Center (Bashir), King Fahad Specialist Hospital, Dammam, from the College of Medicine (Alshammari, Alajmi, Alsubaie, Alsudairi), Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Hafiz Habibullah
From the Department of Pediatric neurology (Albaradie, Habibullah, Mir), Neuroscience Center (Bashir), King Fahad Specialist Hospital, Dammam, from the College of Medicine (Alshammari, Alajmi, Alsubaie, Alsudairi), Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Ali Mir
From the Department of Pediatric neurology (Albaradie, Habibullah, Mir), Neuroscience Center (Bashir), King Fahad Specialist Hospital, Dammam, from the College of Medicine (Alshammari, Alajmi, Alsubaie, Alsudairi), Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Alaa K. Alshammari
From the Department of Pediatric neurology (Albaradie, Habibullah, Mir), Neuroscience Center (Bashir), King Fahad Specialist Hospital, Dammam, from the College of Medicine (Alshammari, Alajmi, Alsubaie, Alsudairi), Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Modhi S. Alajmi
From the Department of Pediatric neurology (Albaradie, Habibullah, Mir), Neuroscience Center (Bashir), King Fahad Specialist Hospital, Dammam, from the College of Medicine (Alshammari, Alajmi, Alsubaie, Alsudairi), Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Fatima A. Alsubaie
From the Department of Pediatric neurology (Albaradie, Habibullah, Mir), Neuroscience Center (Bashir), King Fahad Specialist Hospital, Dammam, from the College of Medicine (Alshammari, Alajmi, Alsubaie, Alsudairi), Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Reem R. Alsudairi
From the Department of Pediatric neurology (Albaradie, Habibullah, Mir), Neuroscience Center (Bashir), King Fahad Specialist Hospital, Dammam, from the College of Medicine (Alshammari, Alajmi, Alsubaie, Alsudairi), Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Shahid Bashir
From the Department of Pediatric neurology (Albaradie, Habibullah, Mir), Neuroscience Center (Bashir), King Fahad Specialist Hospital, Dammam, from the College of Medicine (Alshammari, Alajmi, Alsubaie, Alsudairi), Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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