Rare Clinical Presentations of Perineural Cysts Besides Radicular Pain
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Received August 16, 2012. Accepted August 28, 2012. Correspondence to: Shailendra Kapoor, MD 74 Crossing, Mechanicsville, VA-23111, USA Tel: +1-8675675678, Fax: +1-8656071014, E-mail: [email protected] This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Copyright c The Korean Pain Society, 2012 LETTER TO EDITOR
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