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Scheid, R., Voltz, R., Vetter, T. et al. Neurosyphilis and paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis: important differential diagnoses. J Neurol 252, 1129–1132 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-005-0812-1
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