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Case Report

Symptomatic colloid cysts in the third ventricle of monozygotic twins

Elisabeth Ronne-EngströmDepartment of Neuroscience, Section of Neurosurgery, Uppsala University, Uppsala, SwedenCorrespondence[email protected]
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Edith PopekDepartment of Neurology, Örebro University Hospital, Örebro, Sweden
Pages 59-62 | Received 24 Oct 2014, Accepted 11 Nov 2014, Published online: 10 Dec 2014

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