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Neurological picture
Clumsy hand syndrome due to a localised cortical lesion in the primary sensory cortex in neuromyelitis optica
  1. Sagiri Isose1,
  2. Masahiro Mori1,
  3. Nobuyoshi Takahashi2,
  4. Shoichi Ito1,
  5. Satoshi Kuwabara1
  1. 1Department of Neurology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan
  2. 2Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Chiba Prefectural University of Health Sciences, Chiba, Japan
  1. Correspondence to Sagiri Isose, Department of Neurology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, 1-8-1 Inohana, Chuo-ku, Chiba 260-8670, Japan; sagiri-i{at}par.odn.ne.jp

https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.2010.225870

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