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M Jiggins1, G Prosser, A Jackowski
1Department of Spinal Surgery, Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Northfield, Birmingham, UK.
British Journal of Neurosurgery
|December 25, 2002
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A 47-year-old woman presented with a 2 year history of progressive cervical myelopathy. MRI revealed a lesion anterior to the cord at the level of C1/C2. This was excised and found to be a clear cell sarcoma, a tumour not previously reported at this site.
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