Contrasting adult and paediatric traumatic spinal cord injuries

Spinal Cord Injuries: Causes, Risk Factors and Management

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 251-262

  Clarke, Elizabeth C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

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