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The computer study of 783 paraplegics treated at H. Gabrielle hospital has been presented in 1977 at Stoke Mandeville.
This study allows a useful comparison between suicidal by defenestration mean and accidental falls and confirms the clinical impression of a most favourable evolution for the suicide.
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Girard, R., Minaire, P., Castanier, M. et al. Spinal cord injury by falls: comparison between suicidal and accidental cases. Spinal Cord 18, 381–385 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1038/sc.1980.66
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