Journal Club: Long-term functional outcome in patients with acquired infections after acute spinal cord injury

Affiliations

¹ From International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries (ICORD) (F.M.W., B.T., C.R.J., J.J.C., P.S.S., J.L.K.K.) and School of Kinesiology (F.M.W., C.R.J., J.L.K.K.), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. fwarner@gmail.com.
² From International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries (ICORD) (F.M.W., B.T., C.R.J., J.J.C., P.S.S., J.L.K.K.) and School of Kinesiology (F.M.W., C.R.J., J.L.K.K.), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

Comment

Freda M Warner et al. Neurology. 2017.

. 2017 Aug 15;89(7):e76-e78.

doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000004241.

¹ From International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries (ICORD) (F.M.W., B.T., C.R.J., J.J.C., P.S.S., J.L.K.K.) and School of Kinesiology (F.M.W., C.R.J., J.L.K.K.), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. fwarner@gmail.com.
² From International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries (ICORD) (F.M.W., B.T., C.R.J., J.J.C., P.S.S., J.L.K.K.) and School of Kinesiology (F.M.W., C.R.J., J.L.K.K.), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

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Comment on

Long-term functional outcome in patients with acquired infections after acute spinal cord injury.
Kopp MA, Watzlawick R, Martus P, Failli V, Finkenstaedt FW, Chen Y, DeVivo MJ, Dirnagl U, Schwab JM. Kopp MA, et al. Neurology. 2017 Feb 28;88(9):892-900. doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000003652. Epub 2017 Jan 27. Neurology. 2017. PMID: 28130472 Free PMC article.

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