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Ligamentum Flavum

 
 
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  • OBJECTIVES: To describe an extremely unusual case of acute quadriparesis in a white female caused by calcification of the ligamentum flavum (LF) from C1 to T2, and to review briefly the pertinent literature [10].
 

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