The safety and efficacy of add-on levetiracetam in elderly patients with focal epilepsy: a one-year observational study.

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Published in Seizure on January 22, 2011

Authors

Konrad J Werhahn1, Sven Klimpe, Sonja Balkaya, Eugen Trinka, Günter Krämer

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Neurology, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg, University Mainz, Langenbeckstr. 1, 55131 Mainz, Germany. werhahn@uni-mainz.de

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