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Sudden blindness and deafness disclosing meningeal carcinomatosis in non-small cell lung cancer

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GC: acquisition of data, analysis, interpretation, critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content, and study supervision. CR: acquisition of data, analysis, and interpretation. AR: acquisition of data, analysis, and interpretation. BB: acquisition of data, analysis, and interpretation. RL: acquisition of data, analysis, interpretation, and critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content. LG: acquisition of data, analysis, interpretation, and critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content.

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Costentin, G., Richard, C., Rouille, A. et al. Sudden blindness and deafness disclosing meningeal carcinomatosis in non-small cell lung cancer. Acta Neurol Belg 119, 491–492 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13760-018-01059-2

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