Rapid response of primary progressive aphasia to perispinal etanercept, before and after treatment.

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This video is accompanied by the publication of a new article entitled Perispinal Etanercept Produces Rapid Improvement in Primary Progressive Aphasia: Identification of a Novel, Rapidly Reversible TNF-Mediated Pathophysiologic Mechanism, published June 10, 2008 in The Medscape Journal of Medicine, Neurology and Neurosurgery Clinical Cases, at http://journal.medscape.com/viewarticle/574631_print.
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