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letter . 2020 Oct 16:awaa375. doi: 10.1093/brain/awaa375
Concentric demyelination pattern in COVID-19-associated acute haemorrhagic leukoencephalitis: a lurking catastrophe?
Theodoros Karapanayiotides
a1,✉, Eleni Geka
a2, Panayiotis Prassopoulos
a3, Ioanna Koutroulou
a1, Panayiotis Kollaras
a4, Ellada Kiourtzieva
a2, Chrysa Pourzitaki
a2, Fotini Veroniki
a2, Stiliani-Angeliki Sintila
a1, Athanasios Astreinidis
a3, Georgios Tsivgoulis
a5, Nikolaos Grigoriadis
a1
Theodoros Karapanayiotides
a12nd Department of Neurology, AHEPA University Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, S.Kyriakidi 1, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Eleni Geka
a2Intensive Care Unit, AHEPA University Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, S.Kyriakidi 1, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Panayiotis Prassopoulos
a3Radiology Department, AHEPA University Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, S.Kyriakidi 1, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Ioanna Koutroulou
a12nd Department of Neurology, AHEPA University Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, S.Kyriakidi 1, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Panayiotis Kollaras
a41st Department of Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases Division, AHEPA University Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, S.Kyriakidi 1, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Ellada Kiourtzieva
a2Intensive Care Unit, AHEPA University Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, S.Kyriakidi 1, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Chrysa Pourzitaki
a2Intensive Care Unit, AHEPA University Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, S.Kyriakidi 1, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Fotini Veroniki
a2Intensive Care Unit, AHEPA University Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, S.Kyriakidi 1, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Stiliani-Angeliki Sintila
a12nd Department of Neurology, AHEPA University Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, S.Kyriakidi 1, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Athanasios Astreinidis
a3Radiology Department, AHEPA University Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, S.Kyriakidi 1, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Georgios Tsivgoulis
a52nd Department of Neurology, Attikon Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Rimini 1, Athens, Greece
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Nikolaos Grigoriadis
a12nd Department of Neurology, AHEPA University Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, S.Kyriakidi 1, Thessaloniki, Greece
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a12nd Department of Neurology, AHEPA University Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, S.Kyriakidi 1, Thessaloniki, Greece
a2Intensive Care Unit, AHEPA University Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, S.Kyriakidi 1, Thessaloniki, Greece
a3Radiology Department, AHEPA University Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, S.Kyriakidi 1, Thessaloniki, Greece
a41st Department of Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases Division, AHEPA University Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, S.Kyriakidi 1, Thessaloniki, Greece
a52nd Department of Neurology, Attikon Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Rimini 1, Athens, Greece
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Correspondence to: Theodoros Karapanayiotides, MD, PhD, 2nd Department of Neurology, AHEPA University Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, S.Kyriakidi 1, 54636, Thessaloniki, Greece, E-mail: tkarapanayiotides@auth.gr
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