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CCSVI: Hope, Hype or Snake Oil?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 September 2016

Joel Oger  and
Mona Alkhajawah
Joel Oger
Affiliation:
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Mona Alkhajawah
Affiliation:
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences , Volume 37 , Issue 6 , November 2010 , pp. 716
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