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Joost J van Middendorp1, Harriet Allison2, Katherine Cowan3

  • 1Stoke Mandeville Spinal Foundation, National Spinal Injuries Centre, Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Buckinghamshire NHS Healthcare Trust, Buckinghamshire, HP21 8AL, UK; Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

The Lancet. Neurology
|December 3, 2014
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