Clinical Features of Infectious and Autoantibody Encephalitis
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Investigators from University of Sydney, Australia; John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK; Imperial College, London, UK; and other centers, studied infectious, immune-mediated/autoantibody associated and unknown forms of encephalitis, including frequencies, clinical and radiological phenotypes, and long-term outcome.
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دوره 29 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015