The importance of olivary hypertrophic degeneration as a differential diagnosis in cerebellar mutism syndrome

Matheus Ballestero^{1

2}, Ricardo Santos de Oliveira³

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¹ Medicine Department, Federal University of São Carlos, Washington Luis Highway, Km 235, São Carlos, São Paulo, 13565-905, Brazil. ballestero@gmail.com.
² Department of Surgery and Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo-Ribeirao Preto, Ribeirao Preto, São Paulo, Brazil. ballestero@gmail.com.
³ Department of Surgery and Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo-Ribeirao Preto, Ribeirao Preto, São Paulo, Brazil.

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Matheus Ballestero et al. Childs Nerv Syst. 2023 Feb.

. 2023 Feb;39(2):319-320.

doi: 10.1007/s00381-022-05815-x. Epub 2022 Dec 21.

Matheus Ballestero^{1

2}, Ricardo Santos de Oliveira³

¹ Medicine Department, Federal University of São Carlos, Washington Luis Highway, Km 235, São Carlos, São Paulo, 13565-905, Brazil. ballestero@gmail.com.
² Department of Surgery and Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo-Ribeirao Preto, Ribeirao Preto, São Paulo, Brazil. ballestero@gmail.com.
³ Department of Surgery and Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo-Ribeirao Preto, Ribeirao Preto, São Paulo, Brazil.

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Cerebellar mutism syndrome: the importance of preoperative language assessment.
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