Epidemiology of traumatic and nontraumatic spinal cord injury

Critical Care in Spinal Cord Injury

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 7-20

  Noonan, Vanessa K ^a   Dvorak, Marcel F ^b   Fehlings, Michael G ^c,d,e  

^a RICK HANSEN INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

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EID: 84956972988     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.2217/EBO.12.167     Document Type: Chapter

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