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Letter to the Editor| Volume 334, ISSUE 1-2, P196, November 15, 2013

Reverse Shapiro's syndrome: Hyperthermia in the scenario of agenesis of the corpus callosum

Published:September 03, 2013DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2013.08.005
      I read with great interest the recent article by Pazderska et al. [
      • Pazderska A.
      • O'Connell M.
      • Pender N.
      • Gavin C.
      • Murray B.
      • O'Dowd S.
      Insights into thermoregulation: a clinico-radiological description of Shapiro syndrome.
      ]. Interestingly, another rare clinical entity that has been described recently is “reverse Shapiro's syndrome”.
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