Acute Neck Pain Progressing to Hemiparesis With Brain and Spinal Cord Lesions.

JAMA Neurol

Department of Neurosurgery, Christian Doppler Medical Centre, Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria.

Published: December 2016

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