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Neuropediatrics 2002; 33(1): 53-55
DOI: 10.1055/s-2002-23599
DOI: 10.1055/s-2002-23599
Letter to the Editor
Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York
Alice in Wonderland Syndrome: A Clinical Presentation of Frontal Lobe Epilepsy
Further Information
Publication History
Publication Date:
03 April 2002 (online)
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Abbreviations
AWS Alice in Wonderland syndrome
BEOP benign partial epilepsy with occipital paroxysms
CNS central nervous system
EBV Epstein-Barr virus
EEG Electro-encephalogram
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Dr. J. M.B. Wennink
Department of Pediatrics, St. Lucas Andreas Hospital
Jan Tooropstraat 164
1061 AE Amsterdam
The Netherlands