Off-label use of aducanumab for cerebral amyloid angiopathy
Steven M Greenberg1, Charlotte Cordonnier2, Julie A Schneider3
1Haemorrhagic Stroke Research Program, J Philip Kistler Stroke Research Center, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02114 USA.
The Lancet. Neurology
|July 8, 2021
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