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In two patients with limbic encephalitis serial magnetic resonance (MR) imaging showed evolution of abnormal high-signal intensity in both hippocampal formations on T2-weighted images.
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Kodama, T., Numaguchi, Y., Gellad, F.E. et al. Magnetic resonance imaging of limbic encephalitis. Neuroradiology 33, 520–523 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00588045
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