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Akiyuki Hiraga¹, Satoshi Kuwabara²

¹Department of Neurology, Chiba Rosai Hospital, 2-16 Tatsumidai-Higashi, Ichihara-shi, Chiba, 290-0003, Japan. hiragaa@yahoo.co.jp.

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Excitability Hand knob Magnetic resonance imaging Thiamine Wernicke’s encephalopathy

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