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Peduncular Hallucinosis as First Presentation of Juvenile Pilocytic Astrocytoma

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    Sugata Narayan Biswas & Partha Pratim Chakraborty

  2. Department of Pediatrics, Midnapore Medical College, Hospital Road, Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal, India

    Souvik Biswas

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Biswas, S.N., Biswas, S. & Chakraborty, P.P. Peduncular Hallucinosis as First Presentation of Juvenile Pilocytic Astrocytoma. Indian J Pediatr 83, 736–737 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12098-015-1935-8

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