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Mar 2023
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Corticosteroid-Sparing Effects of Immuno...

AMERICAN ACADEMY OF NEUROLOGY
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Dr. Vera Bril discusses her paper, "Randomized Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Trial of the Corticosteroid-Sparing Effects of Immunoglobulin in Myasthenia Gravis". 

Show references: https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000201501

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