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Neurological picture
Findings of segmental zoster paresis on MRI
  1. Tadashi Umehara,
  2. Renpei Sengoku,
  3. Hidetaka Mitsumura,
  4. Soichiro Mochio
  1. Department of Neurology, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
  1. Correspondence toTadashi Umehara, Department of Neurology, The Jikei University School of Medicine, 3-19-18 Nishi-shinbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-8471, Japan; tumety{at}jikei.ac.jp

http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.2010.235127

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