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01-03-2016 | Letter to the Editors

Lactose-free diet inducing aseptic pancreatitis and myoclonic jerks in late-onset, putative MERRF syndrome

Authors: Josef Finsterer, Werner Habitzl

Published in: Journal of Neurology | Issue 3/2016

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Title: Lactose-free diet inducing aseptic pancreatitis and myoclonic jerks in late-onset, putative MERRF syndrome
Authors: Josef Finsterer
Werner Habitzl
Publication date: 01-03-2016
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Journal of Neurology / Issue 3/2016
Print ISSN: 0340-5354
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1459
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-016-8028-0

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