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Acute onset paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration

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  1. Department of Neurology, Athens University Medical School, Eginition Hospital, 74, Vasilisis Sofias Avenue, Athens, Greece

    Anastasios Bonakis, Sokratis G. Papageorgiou, Dimitrios Mandellos & Nikolaos Kalfakis

  2. Medical Oncologist Henri Dunant Hospital, Athens, Greece

    Eleni Galani

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Bonakis, A., Papageorgiou, S.G., Mandellos, D. et al. Acute onset paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration. J Neurooncol 84, 329–330 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11060-007-9368-5

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