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Acute brachial neuritis with central pontine and extrapontine myelinolysis in a renal transplant recipient

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  1. Neurology Department, Bakirkoy Research and Training Hospital for Psychiatry, Neurology and Neurosurgery, Istanbul, Turkey

    Aysu Sen, Aysun Soysal & Baki Arpaci

  2. Psychiatry Department, Bakirkoy Research and Training Hospital for Psychiatry, Neurology and Neurosurgery, Istanbul, Turkey

    Ali Sever

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Sen, A., Soysal, A., Sever, A. et al. Acute brachial neuritis with central pontine and extrapontine myelinolysis in a renal transplant recipient. Neurol Sci 34, 2249–2251 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10072-013-1489-3

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