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Tracy was a 24-year-old woman who presented with 2 weeks of numbness in her legs and hands and weakness in her legs. These findings were confirmed on her examination and an MRI of the cervical spine revealed a large lesion shown in Fig. 1. A brain MRI was normal.

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Howard, J. (2019). Feedback Sanction. In: Cognitive Errors and Diagnostic Mistakes. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93224-8_7

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