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Extensive corpus callosum infarction

An uncommon pattern of watershed ischaemia?

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  1. Dept. of Neurology, University of Athens, Eginition Hospital, Vas. Sofias 82, 11528, Athens, Greece

    Konstantinos Spengos MD, FESC, Georgios Tsivgoulis MD, Constantin Potagas MD & Vassilios Zis MD

  2. Dept. of Radiology, University of Athens, Areteion Hospital, Athens, Greece

    Achilleas Chatziioannou MD

  3. Dept. of Clinical Therapeutics, University of Athens, Alexandra Hospital, Athens, Greece

    Nikolaos Zakopoulos MD

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Received in revised form: 22 March 2006

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Spengos, K., Tsivgoulis, G., Chatziioannou, A. et al. Extensive corpus callosum infarction. J Neurol 253, 1646–1648 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-006-0256-2

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