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Case Report

A case report of sudden-onset upper and lower extremity weakness

Heba HaddadInternal Medicine Resident, Olive View–UCLA Medical Center, Sylmar, CA, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Michael RotblattAssociate Program Director, Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine Clinical, Professor of Medicine, Olive View-UCLA Medical Center, Sylmar, CA, USA
Pages 104-105 | Published online: 05 Jan 2015

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