Kilimanjaro porter spines

Affiliations

¹ 1Department of Internal Medicine, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, Moshi, Tanzania.
² 2Department of Neurology, Radboudumc Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
³ 3University Medical Centre Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.
⁴ 4Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, Moshi, Tanzania.
⁵ 5Department of Internal Medicine, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, Moshi, Tanzania.

Marieke Cornelia Johanna Dekker et al. Spinal Cord Ser Cases. 2018.

. 2018 Jan 23:4:8.

doi: 10.1038/s41394-018-0040-4. eCollection 2018.

¹ 1Department of Internal Medicine, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, Moshi, Tanzania.
² 2Department of Neurology, Radboudumc Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
³ 3University Medical Centre Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.
⁴ 4Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, Moshi, Tanzania.
⁵ 5Department of Internal Medicine, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, Moshi, Tanzania.

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Conflict of interest statement

Compliance with ethical standardsThe authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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