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A case of fluorotic cervical compressive myelopathy precipitated by trauma is reported. The delayed neurological deterioration was due to a posttraumatic pseudomenincocele, the prompt treatment of which resulted in recovery. Posttraumatic pseudomeningocele is very rare; and certainly so in fluorosis, and thus has not been reported in the literature to date.
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Prasad, V., Raja Reddy, D. Posttraumatic pseudomenigocoele of cervical spine in a patient with skeletal fluorosis. Case report. Spinal Cord 32, 627–630 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1038/sc.1994.100
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