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Spinal Cord Schistosomiasis: MR Imaging Appearance with Surgical and Pathologic Correlation

Sahar Saleem, Adel I. Belal and Nasser M. El-Ghandour
American Journal of Neuroradiology August 2005, 26 (7) 1646-1654;
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