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Odysseas Kargiotis1,2, Aliki Geka3, Athanasios Tsivgoulis4

  • 1Department of Neurology, Metropolitan Hospital, Piraeus, Greece. kargiody@gmail.com.

Neurological Sciences : Official Journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology
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Keywords:
Botulinum toxinHemifacial spasmOccupational dystoniaTask-specific dystonia

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