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Suspected SSPE – a Delayed Psychiatric Presentation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2018
Abstract
A case of suspected subacute sclerosing panencephalitis is described, presenting to a psychiatric hospital 39 years after a natural measles infection.
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