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Over the past 80 years were reported the study results observing various spinal nerve root anomalies found both intraduraly and also extraduraly. Majority of them were focused to the exposed lumbosacral region.
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Matejčík, V., Haviarová, Z., Kuruc, R., Šteňo, A., Šteňo, J. (2019). General Description. In: Intraspinal Variations of Nerve Roots. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01686-9_8
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