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[Familial insomnia with a malignant course: a new thalamic disease]
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French]
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Case Reports
[Familial insomnia with a malignant course: a new thalamic disease]
[Article in
French]
Rev Neurol (Paris).
1986.
Abstract
A degenerative familial disease with insomnia and autonomic disorders in a 53 years old man is reported. At post-mortem examination anterior and dorso-medial nuclei of the thalamus were atrophied.
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