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A retrospective study of patients sustaining traumatic tetraplegia is presented. Survival is correlated with the level of the lesion and the age of patient at which the injury was sustained.
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Sneddon, D., Bedbrook, G. Survival following traumatic tetraplegia. Spinal Cord 20, 201–207 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1038/sc.1982.38
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