Thoracic spinal pantopaque cyst and associated syrinx resulting in progressive spastic paraparesis: Case report

Neurosurgery

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1040-1042

  Tabor, Eric N ^a   Batzdorf, Ulrich ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Pantopaque; Paraparesis; Syringomyelia

Indexed keywords

IOFENDYLATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CASE REPORT; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HEMANGIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INCONTINENCE; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SPASTIC PARAPLEGIA; SPINAL CORD CYST;

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST MEDIA; CYSTS; HUMANS; IOPHENDYLATE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PARAPARESIS, TROPICAL SPASTIC; SPINAL DISEASES; SYRINGOMYELIA; THORAX;

EID: 0029801970     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199611000-00033     Document Type: Article

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