Current Sports Medicine Reports

, Volume 6, Issue 4, pp 251–253 | Cite as

A rare cause of cauda equina syndrome

Case Report
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Midlands Orthopedics, PAColumbiaUSA

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