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Lower medulla hypoplasia in Friedreich ataxia: MR Imaging confirmation 140 years later

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  1. Neuroscience Centre, “Anna Meyer” Children Hospital, Florence, Italy

    Mario Mascalchi

  2. “Mario Serio” Department of Experimental and Clinical Biomedical Sciences, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

    Mario Mascalchi, Andrea Bianchi & Stefano Ciulli

  3. Neuroradiology Unit, “Careggi” Hospital, Florence, Italy

    Andrea Ginestroni

  4. IRCSS Fondazione SDN, Naples, Italy

    Marco Aiello & Emanuele Nicolai

  5. Unit of Neurology and Neurometabolic Disorders, Department of Medicine, Surgery and Neurosciences, University of Siena, Siena, Italy

    Maria Teresa Dotti

  6. “Il Bene” Center for Immunological and Rare Neurological Diseases at Bellaria Hospital, IRCCS, Istituto delle Scienze Neurologiche, Bologna, Italy

    Fabrizio Salvi

  7. University of Naples Parthenope, Naples, Italy

    Andrea Soricelli

  8. Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering “Guglielmo Marconi”, University of Bologna, Cesena, Italy

    Stefano Diciotti

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Mascalchi, M., Bianchi, A., Ciulli, S. et al. Lower medulla hypoplasia in Friedreich ataxia: MR Imaging confirmation 140 years later. J Neurol 264, 1526–1528 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-017-8542-8

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