Surgical Treatment of Thoracic Myelopathy Secondary to Ossification of Ligamentum Flavum
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1Department of Neurosurgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India 2Department of Neurosurgery, King George Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India 3Department of Neurosurgery, Sawai Man Singh Medical College, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India 4Department of Anesthesiology, SMS Medical College, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India 5Department of Anaesthesiology, HIMS, Jolly Grant, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India
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