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A 63-year-old male became quadriplegic after spinal injury associated with ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament of the cervical spine and died 4 years later. A postmortem examination of the cervical spinal cord showed various unfavorable pathological changes accounting for severe myelopathy.
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Mizuno, J., Nakagawa, H. & Hashizume, Y. Pathology of the spinal cord damaged by ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament associated with spinal cord injury. Spinal Cord 37, 224–227 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.sc.3100758
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