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6 - Atherosclerotic vertebral artery disease

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2016

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Ralf Dittrich  and
E. Bernd Ringelstein
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László Csiba  and
Claudio Baracchini
László Csiba
Affiliation:
Department of Neurology, Debreceni Egyetem, Hungary
Claudio Baracchini
Affiliation:
Department of Neuroscience, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy
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Manual of Neurosonology , pp. 87 - 98
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