van Bogaert encephalitis sclerosing leukoencephalitis

van Bogaert encephalitis sclerosing leukoencephalitis
van Bo·gaert encephalitis, sclerosing leukoencephalitis (vahn boґgārt) [Ludo van Bogaert, Belgian neuropathologist, 1897–1989] subacute sclerosing panencephalitis.

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