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Intravascular mucinosis: a rare cause of cerebral infarction

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    Marie Christine Bernardo, Joshua Menke, Bernd Scheithauer & Caterina Giannini

  2. Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

    Jonathan Graff Radford, Christopher Hallemeier, Christopher J. Boes & Mark Lewis

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Bernardo, M.C., Radford, J.G., Menke, J. et al. Intravascular mucinosis: a rare cause of cerebral infarction. Acta Neuropathol 121, 785–788 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00401-011-0829-8

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