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Clinical Reasoning: A 47-year-old woman with left shoulder pain after a fall
Nivedita U Jerath1, Chandan G Reddy2, Toshio Moritani2
1From the Departments of Neurology (N.U.J., L.G.), Neurosurgery (C.G.R.), Neuroradiology (T.M.), and Pathology (L.A.B., C.H.), Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City. Nivedita-jerath@uiowa.edu.
Neurology
|September 10, 2014
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