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Case 12 - Utility of MRI after Negative CT

from Section 2 - Recommendations, Pitfalls, and Controversies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2018

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Stephen R. Love  and
Stephen P. Kalhorn
Edited by
Zoran Rumboldt ,
Alessandro Cianfoni  and
Abhay Varma
Zoran Rumboldt
Affiliation:
Medical University of South Carolina
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Clinical Imaging of Spinal Trauma
A Case-Based Approach
 , pp. 28
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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