Acute spinal cord trauma: Mechanisms and clinical syndromes

Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 95, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 846-850

  Bergman, Robert ^a   Lanz, Otto ^a   Shell, Linda ^a  

^a VIRGINIA MARYLAND REGIONAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (United States)

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