Psychosis revealing familial idiopathic basal ganglia calcification
✍ Scribed by Nicolas, Gaël; Guillin, Olivier; Borden, Alaina; Bioux, Sandrine; Lefaucheur, Romain; Hannequin, Didier
- Book ID
- 120000621
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 355 KB
- Volume
- 35
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0163-8343
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