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01-11-2017 | Letter to the Editor

Brain MRI in a patient with classical galactosemia: acute event of unilateral hemispheric cerebral edema

Authors: Tiago Gil Oliveira, João Paulo Soares-Fernandes

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Title: Brain MRI in a patient with classical galactosemia: acute event of unilateral hemispheric cerebral edema
Authors: Tiago Gil Oliveira
João Paulo Soares-Fernandes
Publication date: 01-11-2017
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Child's Nervous System / Issue 11/2017
Print ISSN: 0256-7040
Electronic ISSN: 1433-0350
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00381-017-3594-8