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Only selected clinical examples and case studies are presented in this book. Mainly for didactic purposes but also with respect to the clinical impact, we prefer to present cases of spinal arteriovenous disorders that are particularly suited for a mental training in vascular anatomy of spine and spinal cord. Spinal cord arterial ischemia is discussed in Sect. 2.11. Analysing rare cases of suspected acute infarction of the spinal cord is important but troublesome, and the diagnostic problems encountered with acute spinal stroke cannot be solved satisfactorily within the scope of this chapter on clinical applications.

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Thron, A.K. (2016). Clinical Applications. In: Vascular Anatomy of the Spinal Cord. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27440-9_4

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