Occurrence of a spinal intradural arachnoid cyst after epiduroscopic neural decompression
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Corresponding author: Dong Eon Moon, M.D., Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, School of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, 505, Banpo-dong, Seocho-gu, Seoul 137-040, Korea. Tel: 82-2-2258-2236, Fax: 82-2-537-1951, E-mail: [email protected] This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://
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