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A historical review of the development of knowledge of the neuropathology of injury to the spinal cord has been undertaken.
From a critical appraisal of this information attention has been focused on several of the gaps in our understanding of the subject which warrant further investigation.
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Wolman, L. The neuropathology of traumatic paraplegia. Spinal Cord 1, 233–251 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/sc.1963.21
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