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Bickerstaff's Brainstem Encephalitis

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  1. Department of Neurology, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland

    Tomasz Berkowicz & Krzysztof Selmaj

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  1. Tomasz Berkowicz
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  1. Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA

    Marc D. Binder

  2. Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Graduate School of Medicine University of Tokyo Hongo, Bunkyo‐ku, Tokyo, Japan

    Nobutaka Hirokawa

  3. Göttingen, Germany

    Uwe Windhorst

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Berkowicz, T., Selmaj, K. (2008). Bickerstaff's Brainstem Encephalitis. In: Binder, M.D., Hirokawa, N., Windhorst, U. (eds) Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-29678-2_615

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