Early versus late surgical decompression for traumatic thoracic/thoracolumbar (T1-L1) spinal cord injured patients: Primary results of a randomized controlled trial at one year follow-up

Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar; Amin Niakan; Ali Haghnegahdar; Abtin Shahlaee; Soheil Saadat; Ehsan Barzideh

Article Information

vol. 19 no. 3 183-191

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Neurosciences Journal

Online ISSN

1658-3183

History

Received January 29, 2014
Accepted April 15, 2014
Published online December 9, 2020.

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Author Information

Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar, MD ⇑,
Amin Niakan, MD,
Ali Haghnegahdar, MD,
Abtin Shahlaee, MD,
Soheil Saadat, MD, PhD and
Ehsan Barzideh, MD

From the Sina Trauma and Surgery Research Center (Rahimi-Movaghar, Shahlaee, Saadat), Sina Hospital, the Students’ Scientific Research Center (Shahlaee), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, the Department of Neurosurgery (Niakan, Haghnegahdar, Barzideh), and the Trauma Research Center (Niakan, Haghnegahdar, Barzideh), Shahid Rajaee Hospital, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran

Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar, Professor of Neurosurgery, Sina Trauma and Surgery Research Center, Sina Hospital, Hassan-Abad Square, Imam Khomeini Ave, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran 11365-3876, Iran. Tel. +98 (915) 3422682 / +98 (216) 6757010. Fax. +98 (216) 6757009. E-mail: v_rahimi{at}sina.tums.ac.ir / v_rahimi{at}yahoo.com

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