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Clinical Reasoning: A 56-year-old man with cognitive impairment and difficulty tying his necktie
Jessica M Baker1, Joel Salinas2, Aaron L Berkowitz2
1From the Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. jbaker7@partners.org.
Neurology
|October 14, 2015
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