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Treatment Monitoring of Brain Creatine Deficiency Syndromes: A 1H- and 31P-MR Spectroscopy Study
M.C. Bianchi, M. Tosetti, R. Battini, V. Leuzzi, M.G. Alessandri’, C. Carducci, I. Antonozzi and G. Cioni
American Journal of Neuroradiology March 2007, 28 (3) 548-554;
M.C. Bianchi
M. Tosetti
R. Battini
V. Leuzzi
M.G. Alessandri’
C. Carducci
I. Antonozzi

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