Correction to: Spinal Cord Series and Cases (2015) 2, 15020. doi:10.1038/scsandc.2015.20; published online 8 October 2015

Since the publication of this article, the authors have noticed an error in the author R Mahajan’s name in the article PDF. This has now been rectified and the corrected article appears online together with this erratum.

The publisher apologises for any inconvenience caused.