Plasma exchange for severe optic neuritis: treatment of 10 patients.

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Published in Neurology on September 28, 2004

Authors

K Ruprecht1, E Klinker, T Dintelmann, P Rieckmann, R Gold

Author Affiliations

1: Clinical Research Unit for Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology, Julius-Maximilians University, Josef-Schneider Str. 11, 97080 Würzburg, Germany. klemens.ruprecht@mail.uni-wuerzburg.de

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