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Epilepsy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 November 2008

Raymond C Tallis
Raymond C Tallis*
Affiliation:
University Department of Geriatric Medicine, Hope Hospital, Manchester, UK
*
Professor RC Tallis, University Department of Geriatric Medicine, Hope Hospital, Eccles Old Road, Manchester M6 8HD, UK.
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Clinical geriatrics
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Reviews in Clinical Gerontology , Volume 1 , Issue 3 , August 1991 , pp. 257 - 265
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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