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Holocord syrinx associated with haemangioblastoma
  1. Jeremy Cosgrove1,
  2. Daniel Warren2,
  3. Chris Derham3,
  4. Stuart Jamieson1
  1. 1Department of Neurology, Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, UK
  2. 2Department of Radiology, Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, UK
  3. 3Department of Neurosurgery, Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Jeremy Cosgrove, Department of Neurology, F Floor, Martin Wing, Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Great George Street, Leeds LS1 3EX, UK; jezcos{at}doctors.net.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/practneurol-2015-001251

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    Footnotes

    • Contributors JC: concept, drafting article; DW, CD: image selection and legends, article approval; SJ: article approval.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient consent Obtained.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed. This paper was reviewed by Joshua Klein, Boston, USA.