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A series of 99 cases of acute central cervical spinal cord syndrome is reviewed. This represents 25 per cent of all acute cervical spinal cord injuries (excluding stabs and gunshots), admitted to the Spinal Cord Injury Centre, Conradie Hospital during an 8-year period (November 1963 to December 1971). Aetiology, age incidence and relationship to injury is discussed.
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Shrosbree, R. Acute central cervical spinal cord syndrome—Aetiology, age incidence and relationship to the orthopaedic injury. Spinal Cord 14, 251–258 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1038/sc.1976.42
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