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BOOK REVIEW
The epilepsies: seizures, syndromes and management based on the ILAE classifications and practice parameter guidelines
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Edited by C P Panayiotopoulos. Oxfordshire: Bladon Medical Publishing, 2005, £95.00 (US$ 163 (approx.); €139 (approx.)), pp 541. ISBN 1904218342
Having accepted to review this text over the summer months, I was surprised by the scope and indeed extent of this edition. I had wrongly assumed that this was to be a second edition of the author’s previously reviewed1 and more concise text, A clinical guide to epileptic syndromes and their treatment (based on the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) diagnostic system), but this text is quite encyclopaedic and with a broader remit. It …