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View larger version (90K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 1. A 46-year-old woman with an unsteady gait, muscle weakness, and tingling and numbness in both hands was found to have brisk deep-tendon jerks and an extensor plantar response on the left. T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging of the cervical spine (Panel A) showed multiple disk herniations from C3 to C7 (open arrows) that were most prominent at the junction of C4 and C5 (solid arrow). In contrast, no herniations were visible below C7. A cervical myelogram with the patient's head in extension (Panel B) showed a complete block of the flow of contrast medium at C4–C5 because . . . [Full Text of this Article]

 

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