Bickerstaff’s brainstem encephalitis: clinical features of 62 cases and a subgroup associated with Guillain–Barré syndrome
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Bickerstaff's brainstem encephalitis: clinical features of 62 cases and a subgroup associated with Guillain±Barre syndrome
1Department of Neurology, Dokkyo University School of Medicine, Tochigi 2Department of Pathology, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, Niigata 3Department of Neurology, St Luke's International Hospital, Tokyo and 4Department of Neurology, Chiba University School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan Correspondence to: Nobuhiro Yuki, MD, PhD, Department of Neurology, Dokkyo University School of Med...
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عنوان ژورنال: Brain
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1460-2156,0006-8950
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awg233