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We report a patient with a Brown-Séquard syndrome due to Semple type antirabies vaccine, with subclinical electrophysiological abnormalities, who recovered with immunosuppressants.
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Sathyanarayana Swamy, H., Vasanth, A. & Kumar, S. Brown-Séquard syndrome due to Semple antirabies vaccine: case report. Spinal Cord 30, 181–183 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1038/sc.1992.52
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