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This is a report of 60 paraplegic patients who sustained their paraplegia either in early childhood or as young adults under the age of 16. Twenty-one were of traumatic origin, very often without fractures, 19 as a result of transverse myelitis or arachnoiditis, 10 following tumours and 9 due to congenital malformation. Some of the latter patients also sustained injuries in addition to their malformation (Table I).
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Audic, B., Maury, M. Secondary vertebral deformities in childhood and adolescence. Spinal Cord 7, 10–16 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/sc.1969.4
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/sc.1969.4