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Just a graze? Cephalic tetanus presenting as a stroke mimic
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Acknowledgements The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery.
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Contributors AD: Helped manage the case. initiated, drafted and revised the paper. She is the second guarantor. CW: revised the paper. She edited the images. DD: helped manage the case. Revised the paper. DK: revised the paper. He is the senior guarantor.
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Competing interests None.
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Patient consent Obtained.
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Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed. This paper was reviewed by William Whiteley, Edinburgh.
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