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Diffusion-Weighted Imaging of Acute Corticospinal Tract Injury Preceding Wallerian Degeneration in the Maturing Human Brain

Avi Mazumdar, Pratik Mukherjee, Jeffrey H. Miller, Hiten Malde and Robert C. McKinstry
American Journal of Neuroradiology June 2003, 24 (6) 1057-1066;
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