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It is not birth, marriage, or death, but gastrulation which is truly the important event in your life (Wolpert 2008)
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Pang, D., Hou, Y.J., Wong, S.T. (2017). Classification of Spinal Dysraphic Malformations According to Embryogenesis: Gastrulation Defects and Split Cord Malformation. In: Di Rocco, C., Pang, D., Rutka, J. (eds) Textbook of Pediatric Neurosurgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31512-6_106-1
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