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Fluid-Signal Structures in the Cervical Spinal Cord on MRI: Anterior Median Fissure versus Central Canal

T.A. Tomsick, E. Peak and L. Wang
American Journal of Neuroradiology April 2017, 38 (4) 840-845; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3174/ajnr.A5121
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