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Brain, Vol. 122, No. 9, 1793-1794, September 1999
© 1999 Oxford University Press

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SPINAL CORD DISEASES—DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT.

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L. R. Caplan

Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

Knowledge about the clinical aspects, diagnosis and treatment of spinal cord diseases has lagged behind that of diseases involving other regions which concern clinical neurologists—namely the cerebral hemispheres, basal ganglia, cerebellum, brainstem, peripheral nerves and muscle. Reasons for this relative information gap abound: the spinal cord is a very long cylindrical structure with a very small diameter that is quite difficult to access because of its surrounding bony fortress and anatomical features; biopsy material is rarely available during life for fear of causing major paralytic deficits; diagnostic . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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