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01-10-2009 | Letter to the editors

Successive affection of bilateral temporomesial structures in a case of non-paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis demonstrated by serial MRI and FDG-PET

Authors: Anastasios Chatzikonstantinou, Kristina Szabo, Caroline Ottomeyer, Rolf Kern, Michael G. Hennerici

Published in: Journal of Neurology | Issue 10/2009

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Title: Successive affection of bilateral temporomesial structures in a case of non-paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis demonstrated by serial MRI and FDG-PET
Authors: Anastasios Chatzikonstantinou
Kristina Szabo
Caroline Ottomeyer
Rolf Kern
Michael G. Hennerici
Publication date: 01-10-2009
Publisher: D. Steinkopff-Verlag
Published in: Journal of Neurology / Issue 10/2009
Print ISSN: 0340-5354
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1459
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-009-5165-8

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