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Notes on cerebellar ataxia in childhood.
The syndrome of cerebellar ataxia is one with which paediatricians are familiar not only because it is the usual presenting feature of the subtentorial tumours of childhood, but also because there is a small but well-recognized group of cases in which cerebellar ataxia is the only ultimate diagnosis. It is not proposed to catalogue all the causes of cerebellar ataxia in childhood but rather to ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Child Neurology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0883-0738,1708-8283
DOI: 10.1177/0883073812448231