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Dorsal intramedullary tuberculoma
  1. Mohammad Tahir1,
  2. Chandan Jyoti Das2,
  3. Faiz U Ahmad3,
  4. Hafeez Ahmad4
  1. 1
    Department of Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
  2. 2
    Department of Radiodiagnosis, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
  3. 3
    Department of Neurosurgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
  4. 4
    Department of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
  1. Dr Chandan Jyoti Das, Department of Radiodiagnosis, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi-110029, India; dascj{at}yahoo.com

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