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Successive affection of bilateral temporomesial structures in a case of non-paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis demonstrated by serial MRI and FDG-PET

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    Anastasios Chatzikonstantinou, Kristina Szabo, Caroline Ottomeyer, Rolf Kern & Michael G. Hennerici

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Chatzikonstantinou, A., Szabo, K., Ottomeyer, C. et al. Successive affection of bilateral temporomesial structures in a case of non-paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis demonstrated by serial MRI and FDG-PET. J Neurol 256, 1753–1755 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-009-5165-8

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