Case of Susac's syndrome initially diagnosed as multiple sclerosis.

J Fr Ophtalmol

Ophthalmology Department, cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc, Woluwé-Saint-Lambert, 10, Avenue Hippocrate, 1200 Brussels, Belgium.

Published: March 2020

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