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Stop testing for autoantibodies to the VGKC-complex: only request LGI1 and CASPR2
- Correspondence to Prof Sarosh R Irani, Oxford Autoimmune Neurology Group, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK;sarosh.irani{at}ndcn.ox.ac.uk
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Stop testing for autoantibodies to the VGKC-complex: only request LGI1 and CASPR2
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- Received December 26, 2019
- Revised April 16, 2020
- Accepted April 30, 2020
- First published June 28, 2020.
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September 21, 2020
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