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Enhancement of Subarachnoid Oculomotor Nerves in Bickerstaff Brainstem Encephalitis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 December 2022

Laura Donaldson
Affiliation:
Department of Surgery, Division of Ophthalmology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Trishal Jeeva-Patel
Affiliation:
Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Daniel Mandell
Affiliation:
Department of Medical Imaging, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Edward Margolin*
Affiliation:
Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Department of Neurology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
*
Corresponding author: Edward Margolin, MD, Professor, Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences, University of Toronto, 801 Eglinton Avenue West, Suite 301, Toronto, ON M5N 2M7, Canada. Email: Edward.Margolin@sinaihealth.ca

Abstract

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Type
Letter to the Editor: New Observation
Copyright
© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Canadian Neurological Sciences Federation

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