Sleep Medicine Reviews
Volume 4, Issue 4 , Pages 375-386 , August 2000

The wide clinical spectrum of nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy

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☆ Correspondence to be addressed to: Federica Provini, MD, Istituto di Clinica Neurologica, Via Ugo Foscolo 7, 40123 Bologna, Italy. Fax: +39 51 6442165; E-mail: elugares@neuro.unibo.it

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doi: 10.1053/smrv.2000.0109

Sleep Medicine Reviews
Volume 4, Issue 4 , Pages 375-386 , August 2000

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