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. 2006 Mar;15(1):53-5.
doi: 10.1080/096470490953653.

A half-century of perpetuating Netter's anatomic error

Joseph E Bogen  1
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A half-century of perpetuating Netter's anatomic error

Joseph E Bogen. J Hist Neurosci. 2006 Mar.

Abstract

The 1953 drawing by Netter of the thalamus mistakenly placed the dorsolateral nucleus on the wrong side of the internal medullary lamina. This error has been perpetuated in the best known texts on neuroscience for over fifty years.

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