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Idiopathic Thoracic Spinal Cord Herniation: Retrospective Analysis Supporting a Mechanism of Diskogenic Dural Injury and Subsequent Tamponade

M. Brus-Ramer and W.P. Dillon
American Journal of Neuroradiology January 2012, 33 (1) 52-56; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3174/ajnr.A2730
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