Complete Recovery of Thoracic Myelopathy after Eleven Months of Paraplegia: A Case Report
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Instances of neurological recovery after early decompression of the spine in non-traumatic spinal cord compression are well documented. We present a patient with paraplegia of 11 months' duration due to atypical spinal tuberculosis who showed complete neurological recovery in three months.
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