Objective Assessment of Cervical Spinal Cord Myelopathy with Diffusion Tensor Parameters
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عنوان ژورنال: Spinal Surgery
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0914-6024,1880-9359
DOI: 10.2531/spinalsurg.25.295