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Headache, chest pain, and multiplex cranial neuropathy

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  1. Neuroalgology Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milan, Italy

    Giuseppe Lauria Pinter, Susanna Usai & Daniele Cazzato

  2. Department of Biomedical, Clinical Sciences “Luigi Sacco”, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

    Giuseppe Lauria Pinter

  3. Department of Neurology, San Martino Hospital, Belluno, Italy

    Franco Ferracci

  4. Neuroradiology, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milan, Italy

    Alessandra Erbetta

  5. Oncological Neurosurgery, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milan, Italy

    Alessandro Perin

  6. Neuropathology Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milan, Italy

    Gianluca Marucci

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Lauria Pinter, G., Ferracci, F., Usai, S. et al. Headache, chest pain, and multiplex cranial neuropathy. Neurol Sci 40, 1477–1480 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10072-019-3718-x

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