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A multicentre prospective study describes the characteristics and presurgical evaluation of children under 3 years referred for epilepsy surgery for drug resistant epilepsy.

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Cherian, A., Sreedharan , M., & Menon, R. (2022). Epilepsy surgery in children: Trends and challenges . Journal of the International Child Neurology Association, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.17724/jicna.2022.246

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