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Retrograde degeneration of the corticospinal tract associated with pontine infarction

Shunsuke Kobayashi1, Seiji Hasegawa, Toshiyuki Maki

  • 1Department of Neurology, Division of Neuroscience, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan. skoba-tky@umin.ac.jp

Journal of the Neurological Sciences
|July 5, 2005
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