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This report deals with 4 patients who had a spinal cord injury resulting from wrestling.
The cause and the results are discussed.
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Açikgöz, B., Özgen, T., Erbengi, A. et al. Wrestling causing paraplegia. Spinal Cord 28, 265–268 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1038/sc.1990.34
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