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Brainstem encephalitis

A diagnostic dilemma

Sarah A. Bin Abdulqader, Hisham M. Alkhalidi and Abdulrazag M. Ajlan
Neurosciences Journal April 2018, 23 (2) 152-157; DOI: https://doi.org/10.17712/nsj.2018.2.20170401
Sarah A. Bin Abdulqader
From the Department of Neurosurgery (Bin Abdulqader, Ajlan), Department of Pathology (Alkhalidi), College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and from the Department of Neurosurgery (Ajlan), Stanford School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, United States of America
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Hisham M. Alkhalidi
From the Department of Neurosurgery (Bin Abdulqader, Ajlan), Department of Pathology (Alkhalidi), College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and from the Department of Neurosurgery (Ajlan), Stanford School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, United States of America
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Abdulrazag M. Ajlan
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