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Edited by John M. Oxbury, Charles E. Polkey, and Michael Duchowny. 878 pp., illustrated. Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders, 2000. $225. ISBN 0-7020-2428-7.

There is a vast difference between focal and generalized epilepsy, and even within these categories there are extensive differences in symptoms, causes, and treatments. Intractable Focal Epilepsy, the first book of its kind, deals with one major category of epilepsy in depth. It has been long awaited by epileptologists, since it deals with one of the greatest challenges in the field: the fact that most patients with medically intractable epilepsy have focal epilepsy.

The main objective of the editors was to review the field in one volume. They hoped to provide adequate information for the nonspecialist and to help specialists . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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