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Episodic symptoms caused by neurovascular conflict of vagus nerve due to hemilateral anterior inferior cerebellar artery

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This work was supported by the following funding: National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant no. 81601139) and Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province (Grant no. 2017JJ3500).

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Lv, H., Li, P., Long, X. et al. Episodic symptoms caused by neurovascular conflict of vagus nerve due to hemilateral anterior inferior cerebellar artery. J Neurol 270, 6163–6165 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-023-11975-w

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