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Hemifacial microsomia with extensive ipsilateral white matter hyperintensity
  1. Richard Tolulope Ibitoye1,2,
  2. Paul Smith3
  1. 1 Neurology, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cheltenham, UK
  2. 2 Department of Clinical and Movement Neurosciences, University College London, London, UK
  3. 3 Radiology, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cheltenham, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Richard Tolulope Ibitoye, Department of Clinical and Movement Neurosciences, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, UK; richard.ibitoye{at}gmail.com

https://doi.org/10.1136/pn-2023-003741

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    • Contributors RTI: drafting/revising the manuscript, data acquisition, accepts responsibility for conduct of research and final approval. PS: drafting/revising the manuscript, accepts responsibility for conduct of research and final approval.

    • Funding RTI is funded by the Guarantors of Brain, UK postdoctoral clinical fellowship.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned. Externally peer reviewed by Owen Pickrell, Swansea, UK.