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Floris, G., Borghero, G., Cannas, A. et al. Frontotemporal dementia with psychosis, parkinsonism, visuo-spatial dysfunction, upper motor neuron involvement associated to expansion of C9ORF72: a peculiar phenotype?. J Neurol 259, 1749–1751 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-012-6444-3
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