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Spinal Cord Injury after Blunt Cervical Spine Trauma: Correlation of Soft-Tissue Damage and Extension of Lesion
  
    	
R. Martínez-Pérez, I. Paredes, S. Cepeda, A. Ramos, A.M. Castaño-León, C. García-Fuentes, R.D. Lobato, P.A. Gómez and A. Lagares

  
    	
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