Bell’s Palsy as a rare extrahepatic manifestation of Acute Hepatitis E virus infection: Insights from five case reports

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Pınar Belviranlı Keskin: Writing – review & editing, Writing – original draft, Validation, Supervision, Project administration, Methodology, Investigation, Formal analysis, Data curation, Conceptualization. Rukiyye Bulut: Validation, Supervision, Methodology, Investigation, Data curation, Conceptualization. Esma Kepenek Kurt: Supervision, Resources, Investigation, Formal analysis, Data curation, Conceptualization. Bahar Kandemir: Writing – review & editing, Visualization, Supervision,

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