Acute Motor-dominant Polyneuropathy as Guillain-Barré Syndrome and Multiple Mononeuropathies in a Patient with Sjögren's Syndrome
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عنوان ژورنال: Internal Medicine
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0918-2918,1349-7235
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.55.6881