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Ectopic Posterior Pituitary Lobe and Periventricular Heterotopia: Cerebral Malformations with the Same Underlying Mechanism?
L. Anne Mitchell, Paul Q. Thomas, Margaret R. Zacharin and Ingrid E. Scheffer
American Journal of Neuroradiology October 2002, 23 (9) 1475-1481;
L. Anne Mitchell
Paul Q. Thomas
Margaret R. Zacharin
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