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Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury Without Initial MRI Abnormality: SCIWORA Revisited

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2014

Morgan Schellenberg ,
Omar Islam  and
Ronald Pokrupa
Morgan Schellenberg
Affiliation:
Queen's University Undergraduate Medical Education, Queen's University
Omar Islam
Affiliation:
Division of Diagnostic Radiology, Imaging Services Department, Kingston General Hospital, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Ronald Pokrupa*
Affiliation:
Division of Neurosurgery, Kingston General Hospital, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
*
Queen's University, Division of Neurosurgery, Kingston General Hospital, 76 Stuart Street, Kingston, Ontario, K7L 2V7, Canada
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Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences , Volume 38 , Issue 2 , March 2011 , pp. 364 - 366
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Copyright © The Canadian Journal of Neurological 2011

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