From the *Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Kobe Red Cross Hospital, Kobe, Japan; †Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hyogo Emergency Medical Center, Kobe, Japan; and ‡Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Okayama University Gracuate School of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan.
Acknowledgment date: November 8, 2008. Revision date: January 14, 2009. Acceptance date: January 16, 2009.
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Presented at (oral presentation) SRS annual meeting in 2008. Original title was “Early Complications of Methylprednisolone Sodium Succinate (MPSS) in the Treatment of Acute Cervical Spinal Cord Injury.”
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