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Anti-ganglioside antibody-associated acute unilateral peripheral vestibulopathy

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Funding

This study was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (no. NRF-2016R1D1A1B04935568).

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  1. Department of Neurology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

    Sun-Uk Lee, Jeong-Yoon Choi & Ji-Soo Kim

  2. Dizziness Center, Clinical Neuroscience Center, and Department of Neurology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, 173-82, Seongnam, Gyeongggi-do, 13620, Republic of Korea

    Sun-Uk Lee, Hyo-Jung Kim, Jeong-Yoon Choi & Ji-Soo Kim

  3. Research Administration Team, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, South Korea

    Hyo-Jung Kim

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SUL analyzed and interpreted the data, and wrote the manuscript. HJK and JYC analyzed and interpreted the data, and revised the manuscript. JSK designed and conceptualized the study, interpreted the data, and revised the manuscript.

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Correspondence to Ji-Soo Kim.

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Drs. S.U. Lee, H.J. Kim and Choi report no disclosures. JS Kim serves as an Associate Editor of Frontiers in Neuro-otology and on the editorial boards of the Journal of Clinical Neurology, Frontiers in Neuro-ophthalmology, Journal of Neuro-ophthalmology, Journal of Vestibular Research, Journal of Neurology, and Medicine.

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This study followed the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki, and was performed according to the guidelines of Institutional Review Board of Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (B-1810-499-101).

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Lee, SU., Kim, HJ., Choi, JY. et al. Anti-ganglioside antibody-associated acute unilateral peripheral vestibulopathy. J Neurol 266, 250–252 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-018-9109-z

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