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Full length article| Volume 6, ISSUE 2, P173-177, March 01, 1988

Decerebrate posturing misinterpreted as seizure activity

  • Stephen J. Haines
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DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/0735-6757(88)90057-5
Decerebrate posturing misinterpreted as seizure activity
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      Publication History

      Accepted: August 3, 1987
      Received: January 21, 1987

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      DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/0735-6757(88)90057-5

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      © 1988 Published by Elsevier Inc.

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