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Cryptococcal dementia in a patient with sarcoidosis
Author(s) -
Deb Siddhartha,
Walterfang Mark,
Varghese Daniel,
Tomlinson Bruce,
Velakoulis Dennis,
Eisen Damon P
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2006.tb00126.x
Subject(s) - neuropsychiatry , officer , geographer , medicine , library science , psychiatry , history , cartography , geography , archaeology , computer science
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