Paraneoplastic brainstem encephalitis in a patient with exceptionally long course of a metastasized neuroendocrine rectum neoplasm
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Cancer
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1471-2407
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-14-691