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  1. Department of Neurology, Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital, 2-1-1, Minatojimaminamimachi, Chuo-ku, Kobe, 650-0047, Japan

    Jun Ueda, Hajime Yoshimura & Nobuo Kohara

  2. Department of Radiology, Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital, 2-1-1, Minatojimaminamimachi, Chuo-ku, Kobe, 650-0047, Japan

    Keiji Shimizu & Megumu Hino

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Ueda, J., Yoshimura, H., Shimizu, K. et al. Response to the letter to the editor of Nicolas Nicastro et al.. Neurol Sci 39, 189–190 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10072-017-3113-4

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