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Combined central and peripheral demyelination with tumefactive demyelinating lesions in the brainstem and longitudinally extensive optic neuritis: a case report

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We would like to thank Professor Susumu Kusunoki, Department of Neurology, Kinki University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka, Japan, for the anti-ganglioside antibody analysis. We are grateful to Professor Hiroshi Takashima, Department of Neurology and Geriatrics, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima, Japan, for the Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease-related gene analysis. We wish to thank Toshiyuki Takahashi, Department of Neurology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Miyagi, Japan, for the anti-MOG antibody analysis. We would like to thank Kei Funakoshi, Department of Neurology, Dokkyo Medical University, Tochigi, Japan, for the anti-NF155 antibody analysis. We thank Lesley McCollum, PhD, from Edanz Group (www.edanzediting.com/ac) for editing a draft of this manuscript.

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    Tatsuya Ueno, Iku Kinoshita, Akira Arai, Chieko Suzuki & Masahiko Tomiyama

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Ueno, T., Kinoshita, I., Arai, A. et al. Combined central and peripheral demyelination with tumefactive demyelinating lesions in the brainstem and longitudinally extensive optic neuritis: a case report. Neurol Sci 41, 1601–1603 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10072-019-04197-4

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