Case 2: A teenager with nausea, vomiting and dysarthria.

Paediatr Child Health

Division of Clinical & Metabolic Genetics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario.

Published: December 2013

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