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Taste impairment in Miller Fisher syndrome

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  1. Department of Neurology, Musashino Red Cross Hospital, Kyonancho 1-26-1, Musashino, Tokyo, 180-8610, Japan

    Yohsuke Yagi, Hiroaki Yokote, Yukiko Watanabe, Takeshi Amino & Tomoyuki Kamata

  2. Department of Neurology, Kinki University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

    Susumu Kusunoki

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Yagi, Y., Yokote, H., Watanabe, Y. et al. Taste impairment in Miller Fisher syndrome. Neurol Sci 36, 809–810 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10072-014-1916-0

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