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Do junctional neural tube defect and segmental spinal dysgenesis have the same pathoembryological background?

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  1. Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

    Sebastian Eibach

  2. Neurosurgery, Macquarie University Hospital, Sydney, Australia

    Sebastian Eibach

  3. Paediatric Neurosurgery, Sydney Children’s Hospital Randwick, Sydney, Australia

    Sebastian Eibach

  4. Paediatric Neurosurgery, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, NHS Trust, London, UK

    Dachling Pang

  5. Paediatric Neurosurgery, University of California, Davis, USA

    Dachling Pang

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Eibach, S., Pang, D. Do junctional neural tube defect and segmental spinal dysgenesis have the same pathoembryological background?. Childs Nerv Syst 36, 1095–1096 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00381-020-04512-x

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