Spinal Cord
Official Journal of the International Medical Society of Paraplegia

May 1998, Volume 36, Issue 5
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Clinical Case of the Month

Prostate cancer: a hazard also to be considered in the ageing male patient with spinal cord injury 299
JJ Wyndaele, E Iwatsubo, I Perkash & M Stöhrer
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Original Articles

Selecting candidates for a lower limb stimulator implant programme: A patient-centred method 303
DN Rushton, FMD Barr, N de N Donaldson, VJ Harper, TA Perkins, PN Taylor & AM Tromans
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Treatment of chronic ventilatory failure using a diaphragmatic pacemaker 310
H Garrido-Garcia, J Mazaira Alvarez, P Martín Escribano, J Romero Ganuza, F La Banda, C Gambarrutta, ME Garcia L, C Labarta, O Arroyo, F Sebastián de la Cruz, R Gutierrez & J García Moreno
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Tendon transfers in tetraplegic patients: The Cleveland experience 315
Alvin A Freehafer
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Aging and life adjustment after spinal cord injury 320
J Stuart Krause
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Mortality following spinal cord injury 329
John D Yeo, John Walsh, Sue Rutkowski, Ros Soden, Mary Craven & James Middleton
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A comparison of women and men with spinal cord injury 337
Monisa Shackelford, Thomas Farley & Cheryl L Vines
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Cervical and breast cancer screening in wheelchair dependent females 340
A Graham, G Savic & B Gardner
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Audit of bladder neck resection in spinal cord injured patients 345
F Derry & S Al-Rubeyi
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Traumatic spinal cord injury complicating ankylosing spondylitis 349
N Ticó, S Ramon, F Garcia-Ortun, L Ramirez, T Castelló, L Garcia-Fernandez & E Lience
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The neurological outcome of acute spinal cord injury in a neurosurgical hospital of a developing country 353
Albert VB Brasil & Danilo Gonçalves Coelho
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Profile

Shepherd Center 357
D Apple & J Stanton
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Case Reports

Primary intraparenchymatous spinal cord melanoma 363
Jesús Vaquero, Félix de Prado & Manuel Pedrosa
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Metastatic choriocarcinoma in the thoracic extradural space: case report 366
Etem Bescedilkonakli, Süleyman Cayli & Sezer Kulaçog brevelu
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Letter

Re: The importance of osmolality in hydrophilic urethral catheters: a crossover study, Waller et al. Spinal Cord (1997) 35: 229 - 233 368
M Svanum
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Reply to letter

Reply from DL Waller 369
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Book Reviews

‘The Axon - Structure, function and Pathophysiology’ 370
Ian Bone
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Molecular and Genetic Basis of Neurological Disease 370
AHV Schapira
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Meetings and Notices

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