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An uncommon paraneoplastic Ri-positive opsoclonus-myoclonus-like syndrome and Stiff-Person syndrome with elevated glutamate/GABA ratio in the cerebrospinal fluid after breast cancer

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Thümen, A., Moser, A. An uncommon paraneoplastic Ri-positive opsoclonus-myoclonus-like syndrome and Stiff-Person syndrome with elevated glutamate/GABA ratio in the cerebrospinal fluid after breast cancer. J Neurol 257, 1215–1217 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-010-5501-z

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