AccScience Publishing / EJMO / Volume 2 / Issue 3 / DOI: 10.14744/ejmo.2017.72691
LETTER TO THE EDITOR

The Effect of Levetiracetam on Insulin/Glucose Level

Gokhan Ozer1
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1 Department of Neurology, Sanko University Faculty of Medicine, Gaziantep, Turkey
EJMO 2018, 2(3), 186–187; https://doi.org/10.14744/ejmo.2017.72691
Submitted: 1 November 2017 | Accepted: 20 November 2017 | Published: 2 May 2018
© 2018 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC-by the license) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
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None declared.
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