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Writer’s cramp: a new dystonic feature in spinocerebellar ataxia type 3

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    Luiz Felipe Rocha Vasconcellos, Luiz Eduardo Novis, Daniel Venturino Nassif & Mariana Spitz

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Vasconcellos, L.F.R., Novis, L.E., Nassif, D.V. et al. Writer’s cramp: a new dystonic feature in spinocerebellar ataxia type 3. Acta Neurol Belg 119, 291–292 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13760-018-1022-9

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