Aquaporin-4 Expression in Post-Traumatic Syringomyelia
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Post-traumatic syringomyelia.
Post-traumatic syringomyelia was previously thought to be an infrequent but serious sequel to spinal cord injury. Clinical and CT studies have shown an incidence of between 1% and 5%, but more recently MRI has suggested an incidence of up to 22%. Twenty spinal cords have been examined after death from two days to 43 years after injury. Four had syrinxes, 20% of the series, approaching the incid...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neurotrauma
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0897-7151,1557-9042
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2012.2614