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To the Editor: Firlik and Welch, in Images in Clinical Medicine (Jan. 28 issue),¹ provided a nice example of the clinical and magnetic resonance imaging findings in a patient with the Brown–Séquard syndrome due to a stab wound of the left side of the neck. The primary injury was to the right side of the cervical spinal cord at C4. The authors, however, incorrectly attributed their patient's right-sided Horner's syndrome to "injury of the right intermediolateral cell column." Horner's syndrome resulting from a cervical spinal cord injury at C4 would be a consequence of the interruption of descending sympathetic fibers . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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