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In the last 2 decades, the application of new techniques in neuroanatomy has led to spectacular advances in our knowledge of the structure and function of the human spinal cord. In 1988, it is appropriate to review this progress, and I am grateful to Sir George Bedbrook and the organisers of the International Paraplegia Meeting in Perth, Western Australia, for inviting me to give this survey, to which I have given the title ‘The New Neuroanatomy of the Spinal Cord’.
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Invited lecture presented at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Medical Society of Paraplegia, Perth, Western Australia, May 1988.
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Hughes, J. The new neuroanatomy of the spinal cord. Spinal Cord 27, 90–98 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1038/sc.1989.15
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