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Symmetrical white matter lesions in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus
  1. Pedapati Radhakrishna,
  2. Animesh Das,
  3. Achal Kumar Srivastava
  1. Department of Neurology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Cardio-Neuro Sciences Centre, New Delhi, India
  1. Correspondence to Dr Animesh Das, Department of Neurology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Cardio- Neuro Sciences Centre, New Delhi, 110070, India; animeshdas05{at}gmail.com

http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/postgradmedj-2021-140232

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    • AD and AKS are joint senior authors.

    • Contributors PR managed the patient AD planned and wrote the initial draft AS modified and critical appraised the manuscript.

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.