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Pearls & oy-sters: good recovery following cerebral fat embolization with paroxysmal hyperactivity syndrome

Manoj K Mittal1, Tamika M Burrus, Norbert G Campeau

  • 1From the Departments of Neurology (M.K.M., A.A.R., E.F.M.W.) and Radiology (N.G.C., L.J.E.), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; and the Department of Neurology (T.M.B.), UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.

Neurology
|October 2, 2013
PubMed
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