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Spinal extradural meningeal cyst and Scheuermann’s disease: coincidence or causative factor?

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    Ho-Young Park, Sun-Ho Lee, Eun-Sang Kim & Whan Eoh

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Park, HY., Lee, SH., Kim, ES. et al. Spinal extradural meningeal cyst and Scheuermann’s disease: coincidence or causative factor?. Childs Nerv Syst 28, 1807–1810 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00381-012-1774-0

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