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Demyelinating Diseases

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This chapter focuses on the classification, presentation, diagnosis, and treatment of common and less common demyelinating diseases, such as Multiple Sclerosis and Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis.

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  1. Department of Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

    Doris Kung

  2. Department of Neurology, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX, USA

    Thy Nguyen

  3. Adventist Health, Paradise, CA, USA

    Ritu Das

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Kung, D., Nguyen, T., Das, R. (2019). Demyelinating Diseases. In: Absolute Case-Based Neurology Review. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11132-8_3

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