Unusual Painful Muscle Spasm in a Dialysis-Dependent Patient with Progressive Cervical Kyphosis

Daisuke Tsunoda1, Yoichi Iizuka1, Tokue Mieda1

  • 1Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, 3-39-22 Showa, Maebashi, Gunma 371-8511, Japan.

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