Unilateral cranial and phrenic nerve involvement in axonal Guillain–Barré syndrome
✍ Scribed by Yumi Sakakibara; Masahiro Mori; Satoshi Kuwabara; Kaoru Katayama; Takamichi Hattori; Michiaki Koga; Nobuhiro Yuki
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 234 KB
- Volume
- 25
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0148-639X
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