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. 2021 Jun;268(6):2035-2037.
doi: 10.1007/s00415-020-10201-1. Epub 2020 Sep 3.

Bickerstaff encephalitis after COVID-19

Lucía Llorente Ayuso  1 , Pedro Torres Rubio  2 , Rafael Fernando Beijinho do Rosário  3 , María Luisa Giganto Arroyo  4 , Fernando Sierra-Hidalgo  5
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Bickerstaff encephalitis after COVID-19

Lucía Llorente Ayuso et al. J Neurol. 2021 Jun.
No abstract available

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On behalf of all authors, the corresponding author states that there is no conflict of interest.

Figures

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Fig. 1
Brain MRI findings. a and b, high signal intensity of the right flocculus and the nodulus on FLAIR images. c weak restriction of the nodulus on diffusion-weighted images. d lineal gadolinium enhancement of dorsal medulla on T1-weighted images
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