Thoracic spondylitis induced myelopathy combined with herpetic neuralgia
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Corresponding author: Woo Seog Sim, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, 50, Ilwon-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul 135-710, Korea. Tel: 82-2-3410-0359, Fax: 82-2-3410-6626, E-mail: anesthe@ skku.edu This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://
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دوره 65 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2013