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Acute cervical cord infarction in anterior spinal artery territory with acute swelling mimicking myelitis

Hussam Abou Al-Shaar, Iyad AbouAl-Shaar and Mohammed Z. Al-Kawi
Neurosciences Journal October 2015, 20 (4) 372-375; DOI: https://doi.org/10.17712/nsj.2015.4.20150109
Hussam Abou Al-Shaar
From the Department of Neurosciences (Abou Al-Shaar, Al-Kawi), Division of Neurology, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, and College of Medicine (Abou Al-Shaar, Al-Kawi), Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the College of Medicine (AbouAl-Shaar), Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan
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Iyad AbouAl-Shaar
From the Department of Neurosciences (Abou Al-Shaar, Al-Kawi), Division of Neurology, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, and College of Medicine (Abou Al-Shaar, Al-Kawi), Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the College of Medicine (AbouAl-Shaar), Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan
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Mohammed Z. Al-Kawi
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Hussam Abou Al-Shaar, Iyad AbouAl-Shaar, Mohammed Z. Al-Kawi
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