Global incidence and prevalence of traumatic spinal cord injury

Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 456-464

  Furlan, Julio C ^a,b,c   Sakakibara, Brodie M ^d   Miller, William C ^d   Krassioukov, Andrei V ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b TORONTO REHABILITATION INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; BULGARIA; CANADA; DENMARK; ESTONIA; FIJI; FINLAND; HUMAN; ICELAND; INCIDENCE; IRELAND; ITALY; JORDAN; NETHERLANDS; NEW ZEALAND; NORWAY; PORTUGAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ROMANIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SPAIN; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TAIWAN; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); UNITED STATES;

EID: 84879390755     PISSN: 03171671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0317167100014530     Document Type: Review

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