Spinal cord infarction: Etiology and outcome

Neurology

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 321-330

  Cheshire, William P ^a,c   Santos, Cesar C ^b   Massey, E Wayne ^b   Howard Jr , James F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM SURGERY; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA RUPTURE; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CELIAC PLEXUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; EMBOLISM; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INFARCTION; ISCHEMIA; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD; SPONDYLOSIS; STROKE; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; THROMBOSIS; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

EID: 0029787184     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.47.2.321     Document Type: Review

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