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    Magnetic resonance imaging in spinal trauma
    Silberstein, Morry ( 1992)
    The Austin Hospital in Melbourne, houses the largest spinal trauma unit in Australia, and one of the largest in the world. It has long been recognised as a centre of excellence in the care of patients with spinal injuries, but, by the start of the last decade of the twentieth century, this unit lagged behind the rest of the world in a critically important diagnostic area: imaging of acute and chronic spinal trauma patients. Whilst encouraging preliminary work had come out of the United States suggesting that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) could have a major role in management of spinal trauma patients, the economic climate in this country was such that there was little hope of an MRI unit being installed at the Austin, unless a significant on-site need could be demonstrated for this expensive technology. (From Preface)