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Kahler-Pick law (Arnold Pick)

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Together with Arnold Pick, Kahler elucidated the anatomical course of the posterior nerve roots which enter the posterior columns so that fibres at higher levels displace those from lower levels medially - Kahler-Pick law.

Bibliography

    O. Kahler, A. Pick:
    Beiträge zur Pathologie und pathologischen Anatomie des Centralnervensystems.
    Vierteljahresschrift für die praktische Heilkunde, Prague, 1879, 141: 1-86
    Vierteljahresschrift für die praktische Heilkunde, Prague, 1879, 142: 1-102.
We thank Rudolf Kleinert, Bad Reichenhall, Germany, for information submitted.

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