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    A. V. Lebedeva

  2. Interregional Department of Paroxysmal States No. 2, City Clinical Hospital No. 12, Moscow, Russia

    I. L. Kaimovskii & R. Sh. Mutaeva

  3. Department of Neurorehabilitation No. 2, City Clinical Hospital No. 12, Moscow, Russia

    I. L. Kaimovskii & K. M. Gorshkov

  4. Sklifosovskii Research Institute of First Aid, Moscow, Russia

    V. V. Krylov, A. E. Talypov, Yu. V. Puras & I. S. Trifonov

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Translated from Zhurnal Nevrologii i Psikhiatrii imeni S. S. Korsakova, Vol. 113, No. 4, Iss. 2, Epilepsy, pp. 25–28, April, 2013.

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Kaimovskii, I.L., Lebedeva, A.V., Mutaeva, R.S. et al. Risk Factors for Post-Traumatic Epilepsy in Adults. Neurosci Behav Physi 44, 761–764 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11055-014-9980-8

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