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Neurological picture
Peripheral axonal motor degeneration after spinal cord infarct
  1. P MICHEL,
  2. J MIKLOSSY,
  3. T KUNTZER
  1. Service de neurologie and Institut Universitaire de Pathologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
  2. Thierry.kuntzer@chuv.hospvd.ch

    https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.71.1.128

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