Dear Readers,
An interesting interactive case has been published in eBrain this month. It has been written by the Neurology, Neuroscience and Stroke Unit teams from UCL Belgium. Please, find below the abstract.
To see the full case, please log-in via the EAN-website, and once you are on the eBrain page, go to “virtual patient cases”:
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neuromyelitis optica
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