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Fourteen-year-old female, progressive neck pain in the nuchal area radiating to the head with painful contracture of the right paraspinal musculature. Pain was unrelated to weight-bearing and was increasing during the night. Physical examination revealed mild hyperreflexia, gait disturbance, positive Hoffmann sign, and clonus.
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Gasbarrini, A., Girolami, M., Ghermandi, R., Akman, Y.E., Boriani, S. (2017). Exemplificative Cases in Cervical Spine. In: Boriani, S., Presutti, L., Gasbarrini, A., Mattioli, F. (eds) Atlas of Craniocervical Junction and Cervical Spine Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42737-9_12
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