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Neurological picture
Hypomelanosis of Ito
  1. N Shobha1,
  2. A B Taly1,
  3. S Sinha1,
  4. G R Arunodaya1,
  5. S G Srikanth2
  1. 1Department of Neurology, NIMHANS, Bangalore, India
  2. 2Department of Neuroradiology, NIMHANS, Bangalore, India
  1. Correspondence to:
 Professor A B Taly
 Department of Neurology, NIMHANS, Bangalore: 560 029, Karnataka, India; abtaly{at}yahoo.com

https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.2005.084723

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