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6 - Atherosclerotic vertebral artery disease

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2016

László Csiba
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Department of Neurology, Debreceni Egyetem, Hungary
Claudio Baracchini
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Department of Neuroscience, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy
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