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The role of brain magnetic resonance imaging on the timing of antiepileptic drugs withdrawal following mesial temporal lobe epilepsy surgery

Miad Albalawi, Fawzi Babtain, Saleh Baeesa, Youssef Al- Said and Khalid Alqadi
Neurosciences Journal July 2021, 26 (3) 270-276; DOI: https://doi.org/10.17712/nsj.2021.3.20200182

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