Henry Ahn, St. Michael's Hospital (IMAGE)

St. Michael's Hospital

Henry Ahn, St. Michael's Hospital

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Older patients with traumatic spinal cord injuries are less likely to receive surgery compared with younger patients and they experience a significant lag between injury and surgery, according to new research by Dr. Henry Ahn, an orthopedic surgeon at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto.

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