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Research ArticleSpine Imaging and Spine Image-Guided Interventions

Intraforaminal Location of Thoracolumbar Radicular Arteries Providing an Anterior Radiculomedullary Artery Using Flat Panel Catheter Angiotomography

L. Gregg, D.E. Sorte and P. Gailloud
American Journal of Neuroradiology May 2017, 38 (5) 1054-1060; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3174/ajnr.A5104
L. Gregg
aFrom the Division of Interventional Neuroradiology (L.G., D.E.S., P.G.)
bDepartment of Art as Applied to Medicine (L.G.), The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
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D.E. Sorte
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P. Gailloud
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L. Gregg, D.E. Sorte, P. Gailloud
Intraforaminal Location of Thoracolumbar Radicular Arteries Providing an Anterior Radiculomedullary Artery Using Flat Panel Catheter Angiotomography
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