Niemann–Pick disease type C1 presenting with psychosis in an adolescent male
✍ Scribed by Sabine Sandu; Sabine Jackowski-Dohrmann; Axel Ladner; Michael Haberhausen; Christian Bachmann
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 114 KB
- Volume
- 18
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1018-8827
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