Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy: An Epileptic Syndrome?

Neuropediatrics 2017; 48(02): 064-065
DOI: 10.1055/s-0037-1600517

Editorial Comment

Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York

Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy: An Epileptic Syndrome?^[*]

Hans Hartmann

¹Clinic for Pediatric Kidney, Liver, and Metabolic Diseases, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

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