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  1. Dipartimento Per La Promozione Della Salute “G. D’Alessandro”, Università di Palermo, Palermo, Italy

    Emanuele Cannizzaro & Carla Cannizzaro

  2. U.O. Neurologia e Stroke Unit, Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Ospedale Civico-ARNAS, P.za N. Leotta 4, 90127, Palermo, Italy

    Gianluca Lopez & Daniele Lo Coco

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Cannizzaro, E., Cannizzaro, C., Lopez, G. et al. Stroke after tadalafil use. Neurol Sci 34, 1843–1844 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10072-013-1324-x

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