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Oliveira, T.G., Soares-Fernandes, J.P. Brain MRI in a patient with classical galactosemia: acute event of unilateral hemispheric cerebral edema. Childs Nerv Syst 33, 1879–1880 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00381-017-3594-8
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