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To the Editor:
In their article, Cruz-Flores et al.1 described two original cases and reviewed the literature. In their methods, the authors stated that they excluded most of previously published articles because of lack of adequate data. Only 15 reports met their inclusion criteria.
Because of the limitation of the number of allowed references to 10 for a “Brief Communication” in Neurology, the authors referenced only nine articles, none of which included selected patients with brainstem hypertensive encephalopathy (HTE). The readers have to logon to the Neurology Web site to consult the appendix in order to see which studies have been selected.
Although it may be convenient to post additional material such as large tables on the Neurology Web site, the list of references used in a review of the literature should be immediately available to the reader of printed articles. Indeed a quick review of this article is misleading and would suggest that these two cases are unique and that brainstem involvement of HTE was …
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