Seizure: European Journal of Epilepsy
Volume 19, Issue 7 , Page 453 , September 2010

Peri-ictal heart rates depend on seizure-type

  • Rainer Surges

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Epileptology, University Bonn, Sigmund Freud Str. 25, 53127 Bonn, Germany. Tel.: +49 228 28714778; fax: +49 228 28719351.

Received 1 May 2010

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PII: S1059-1311(10)00140-8

doi: 10.1016/j.seizure.2010.06.011

Seizure: European Journal of Epilepsy
Volume 19, Issue 7 , Page 453 , September 2010

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